Liaison Report on ISO

1
Liaison Report on ISO

• Hidenori Shinoda
• 12/2/2004
• DICOM Standards Committee
• Chicago

2
Update the Status

• ISO/TC215 Joint Working Groups meeting was held
  between September 12th and 14th in San Francisco.
• Hidenori Shinoda made a presentation about the
  resolution that had been made at the previous
  meeting in Munich.
• Melvin, convener of WG2, commented that he
  expected the DICOMs draft text for the proposal.
• Dr. Kwak, Chair Person of the TC asked Charles to
  introduce the activities of IHE. He expressed IHE
  would have relationship with ISO and ask
  ISO/TC215 to accelerate their discussion.

3
Adoption of DICOM by ISO

• DICOM Liaison to ISO/TC215
• 9/12-14/2004
• At San Francisco

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DICOM

• Strong cooperation with TC215 (liaison A, WADO,
  joint WG2 yearly meeting)
• Strong desire to further expand cooperation.
• DICOM publication as an ISO standard on-going
  discussion
• DICOM is a set of 16 documents (about 3000 pages)
• Available for free distribution from
  dicom.nema.org
• Active extensions (15 supplements/year) and
  maintenance (50 corrections/year).
• Republishing as an ISO Standard and establishing
  on-going maintenance appears a rather big task.
• DICOM has been consulting with the ISO
  secretariat and would like to propose the
  following alternative
• Do nothing, assuming that the international
  acceptance of DICOM is sufficient
• Follow the CEN approach to issue a brief standard
  (scope normative references (ISO directives
  part 2-6.2.2) to DICOM parts).

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DICOM Standards Committee approved

• The development of an ISO standard that results
  in the adoption of DICOM by ISO.
• The approach suggested by ISO/TC215
• This ISO standard would be issued directly for a
  DIS ballot.
• The DIS consists of
• A definition of the scope, applications, and an
  overview of the published parts of the DICOM
  Standard
• References to the parts of the DICOM Standard as
  currently published by DICOM. ISO rules allow
  non-ISO documents to be referenced under
  conditions that are met by DICOM.

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DICOM Standards Committee suggests the following
approach

• DICOM will produce a draft text to be distributed
  in November 2004 for comments by the ISO/TC215
  WG2 members as well as DICOM Standards Committee
  members.
• Based on this feedback, a draft DIS text will be
  produced for review at the joint TC215 WG2 and
  DICOM WG-10 meeting in Orlando on January 29th.
• Based on this feedback, a proposed DIS Text would
  be prepared, finalized and a DIS Ballot issued at
  the May 9-12, 2005 ISO TC 215 Plenary in Berlin.

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DICOM Standards Committee would like to express

• its satisfaction at the successful completion of
  the joint ISO-DICOM standard on Web Access to
  DICOM Persistent Objects and
• looks forward to further cooperation fostering
  harmonization of healthcare IT standards.