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EURO-TELEPATH “Telepathology Network in Europe”
COST Action IC0604

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
DICOM WG-26 Pathology

Next meeting:

Cologne, Germany. May 1st, 2007.

Tuesday, May 1st – Q1, Q2 and Q3 : joint HL7 AP SIG – DICOM WG26 joint meeting

    - DICOM Specimen Model (Supplement 122).

Tuesday, May 1st Q4 : joint HL7 AP SIG - Lab SIG – (DICOM WG26) meeting

    - DICOM Specimen model in context of HL-7 Specimen Model

 

Previous WG26 meeting minutes: http://medical.nema.org/DICOM/minutes/WG-26/

 

DICOM WG-06 (June, 12-15th) & DICOM WG-26 (June 16th) meetings.

DICOM and SEIS have been invited to use the facilities of Informatics, Communications and Technological Innovation Department ("Dirección General de Informática, Comunicaciones e Innovación Tecnológica") of the Madrid Health Council ("Consejeria de Sanidad de Madrid").

The address is:
Name: Centro Regional de Soporte Tecnico de la Consejeria de Sanidad
(Regional Center for Tecnical Supoport of the Health Council in Madrid) Street address: Julián Camarillo, 4. Edificio (Building) 4B. (Ground Floor, Planta Baja) Postal Code: 28037 - Madrid

Transportation:

Metro: L7 (Station: "García Noblejas")
L5 (Station: "Ciudad Lineal")
Buses: 4, 28, 38, 48, 70 y 105

Other DICOM documents of interest:

Links of interest:

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative
IHE-Pathology

European IHE-Pathology group: http://www.gmsih.fr/IHE  (also available in English)

IHE España. Subcomité Técnico de Anatomía Patológica: http://www.ihe-e.org/patologia.htm

Next Meetings:

Cologne, Monday, April 30th – May 2nd,  2007. HL7 meeting - HL7 Anatomic Pathology SIG

Agenda

Monday, April 30th – Q3 and Q4: HL7 Anatomic Pathology SIG meeting

- CDA based anatomic pathology report (committee ballot).

Tuesday, May 1st – Q1, Q2 and Q3 : joint HL7 AP SIG – DICOM WG26 joint meeting

- DICOM Specimen Model (Supplement 122).

Tuesday, May 1st Q4 : joint HL7 AP SIG - Lab SIG – (DICOM WG26) meeting

- DICOM Specimen model in context of HL-7 Specimen Model

Wednesday, May 2nd – Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 : joint HL7 AP SIG – IHE Pathology meeting

- Pathology Workflow (ordering, imaging and reporting workflows)


Pathology TF volume 1:

Click here to dowload the last version (1.9) of the Pathology TF volume 1 (including changes from IHE Pathology Berlin)

Pathology TF volume 2 : Remaining issues for Transactions Definition

PAT 1 (HL7 v2.5): Placer Order Management (F.Lecretisseur – Technidata)
- Messages validation (list of SEQ)
- SPM - Table 0487 (Specimen Type)

PAT2 (HL7 v2.5), in option Filler Order Management (F.Lecertisseur)

PAT3 (DICOM): Modality Worklist Provided (J.Klossa, E.Cordonnier)
- Matching keys (patient based, specimen based)
- Return keys

PAT 4 (HL7 v2.5): Procedure Scheduled and Update.
- Information about order only or about specimen processing

PAT 7 (HL7 v2.5 – CDA): Report Management
- Message validation (MDM)
- CDA

RAD-8, RAD-10 (DICOM): Modality Image Stored (J.Klossa, C.Daniel)
- new VL DICOM Object : DICOM supp 122
- WSI
- Image Storage/Image reader

 

Past meetings and documents:

 

 

Joint DICOM-IHE Pathology meeting. 10-11 january 2006 - Phoenix USA.
 Principaux résultats des réunions de travail de Phoenix. (C.Daniel Le Bozec (ADICAP) - J.Klossa (Tribvn

First European IHE-Pathology Meeting
It was held at the European Congress of Pathology in Paris. September 5th, 2005.
Presentations available at: http://www.gmsih.fr/tiki-index.php?page=IHE&pagenum=5 or at: http://www.gmsih.fr/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=298
Dr Christel Le Bozec's (France) report of the first meeting of IHE-Pathology Europe.  

Prof. Ikuo Tofukuji (Japan). Memorandum on Pathology DICOM and IHE.

Interesting links:

IHE-Europe Mailing list: ihe-pathology@listes.univ-rennes1.fr
Mailing list information: http://listes.univ-rennes1.fr/wws/info/ihe-pathology
 

IHE-España: Sitio web: http://www.ihe-e.org/ (Web anterior: http://www.seram.es/IHE/) 
     Lista de correo: http://www.ihe-e.org/lista.htm (Dirección anterior: http://list.seram.es/mailman/listinfo/seram.es.ihe)
     Para mandar un mensaje a esta lista, envíelo a:  ihe-e@ihe-e.org (Dirección anterior: ihe@seram.es)

Other IHE interesting links:

Health Level Seven
HL7 Pathology Special Interest Group

Next meeting:

Cologne, Monday, April 30th – May 2nd,  2007. HL7 meeting - HL7 Anatomic Pathology SIG

Agenda

Monday, April 30th – Q3 and Q4: HL7 Anatomic Pathology SIG meeting

- CDA based anatomic pathology report (committee ballot).

Tuesday, May 1st – Q1, Q2 and Q3 : joint HL7 AP SIG – DICOM WG26 joint meeting

- DICOM Specimen Model (Supplement 122).

Tuesday, May 1st Q4 : joint HL7 AP SIG - Lab SIG – (DICOM WG26) meeting

- DICOM Specimen model in context of HL-7 Specimen Model

Wednesday, May 2nd – Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 : joint HL7 AP SIG – IHE Pathology meeting

- Pathology Workflow (ordering, imaging and reporting workflows)

 

Call for participation:

A new project has began in HL7 to standardize the electronic surgical pathology report in HL7 CDA with special attention to inclusion of structured data about specimens and CAP protocols and their "synoptic" data elements.

There is a sizable group of interested people and a demand and feasibility for this type of standard in HL7 is widely accepted. This means it is time to charge ahead.


HL7 PATHOLOGY EMAIL LIST

Addressed as:  pathology@lists.hl7.org

This should carry future discussions about this project. It is an open forum, so anyone can subscribe without regards to HL7 membership status. To subscribe go directly to:

http://www.hl7.org/special/committees/list_sub.cfm?list=pathology

and register with your email address where you like to receive list related email.

Interesting links:

Terminology in Pathology

[SNOMED] [ICD] [UMLS]

SNOMED CT:

CAP, College of American Pathologists (SNOMED Terminology Solutions): http://www.capsts.org  

IHTSDO, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation: http://www.ihtsdo.org/

World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases

NCI SEER Training Web Site.

En Español:

CLASIFICACION INTERNACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES, 9ª REVISION CLASIFICACION INTERNACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES, 9ª REVISION

 

Clasificación internacional de las enfermedades 2001 (CIE 10, IDC-10)

Clasificación de los tumores del Sistema Nervioso (WHO 2000)
Clasificación de la OMS de las enfermedades malignas de la sangre
Clasificación de la OMS de los tumores de cuello uterino
Clasificación de la OMS de los tumores de la mama
Clasificación Intenacional de los Procedimientos Quirúrgicos
Otras clasificaciones en Medicina

 

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Unified Medical Language System Knowledge Source Server (UMLSKS)

 

Other standards

European Normalization Committee

XML for Pathologists. PTHML mailing list. http://eusalud.uninet.edu:9673/i-copat/index.html

 

Congress presentations

These are some presentations from our group:

Virtual Microscopy presentation: DICOM. IHE, and virtual slides in pathology.
Marcial García Rojo. Hospital General de Ciudad Real. Spain.
 II Fórum Ibérico de Telemedicina
5-8 Octubre, 2005
Viseu (Portugal)

Virtual microscopy, DICOM and IHE
See presentation at http://194.100.179.98:80/wip/directlink.do?newbrowser=0&pid=166520


 

7th European Congress on Telepathology
&
1st International Congress on Virtual Microscopy

July 8-11 2004. Poznan, Poland

http://www.telepath.poznan.pl/

 

Working with virtual slides: DICOM-3 as a standard in pathology images

Marcial García Rojo, Javier García Muñoz*, Carlos Royo Sánchez*, Manuel Carbajo Vicente
Complejo Hospitalario de Ciudad Real
* Technology Area of the Castilla-La Mancha Health Service (SESCAM).

 

Aims: We have evaluated four commercial solutions and prototypes of virtual slides in order to integrate pathology images in the Picture Archiving and Communicating System (PACS) that SESCAM (Health Service in Castilla La Mancha, Spain) is implementing in every hospital of our region.

Methods: Four systems have been evaluated until now by direct observation (Bacus BLISS, Nikon Coolscope with EclipseNet Virtual Slide) and specifications and files received from the manufacturer (Aperio ScanScope, LifeSpan BioSciences)

Results: All evaluated systems were able to generate JPEG or JPEG 2000 standard files. The virtual slides in those formats can be dicomized to be stored in the hospital PACS system and are also be accessible from any medical workstation with standard DICOM viewer.

Conclusions: The most comfortable format for large volumes of virtual slides is JPEG 2000, that allow for a significant reduction of the amount of space necessary for each slide and it also permits an easy integration with PACS.

We are also integrated these standard images with the platform of the 7th Spanish-American Virtual Congress of Pathology, to be held in 2005.

 

Contact information:

Dr. Marcial Garcia Rojo
Servicio de Anatomia Patologica
Hospital General de Ciudad Real
C/ Tomelloso s/n. Poligono Larache
13005 Ciudad Real. Spain
Tfno. +34 926278000
(opcion 1, extension 78867, esperar confirmación y pulsar 1)
(For direct contact: while PBX voice, dial 1, then dial 78867, wait for confirmation and dial 1 again).
E-mail: marcial@cim.es

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