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i2b2 to XNAT to DICOM architecture and workflow

Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group Meeting Minutes February 2, 2010

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Mike Mendis
• Shawn Murphy
• Mark Anderson
• Randy Gollub
• Yong Gao
• Wendy Plesniak
• Alex Zeitsev
• Charles McGow
• Dan Marcus
• Ron Kikinis
• Jesse Wei
• Steve Piper
• Chris Herrick

1. Presentation of the project to the Senior Vice-Presidents.

• Shawn, Randy and Diane Keogh presented the mi2b2 project to the SVP of the different institutions and to Lee Nadler, PI of the Harvard Catalyst. They got a very positive response. They agreed that working with the Radiology Departments will require to build relationships. There was also a lot of tough about how the project will be sustained after the grant is finished. On the software side, STRA_D is another i2b2 cell and will be maintain in the i2b2 open source package. On the operation side, it will be worked out site by site.

2. The group welcomed Chirs Herrick.

• Chris will be the project lead architect, working closely with Steve who is the lead scientist.
• The people they will interact directly with from the different institutions are:
  • BWH: Ramin Khorasani
  • MGH: Keith Drier and Tom Schultz
  • BIDMC: Jesse Wei
  • CHB: Bill Telier and Paul Lamonica

3. Phantoms for mi2b2 test PACS system

• Mark loaded a couple of phantoms from BWH. The process was very easy. None of the phantoms had accession numbers.
• Jesse has phantoms from BIDMC, each has the name of a real doctor as referring physician but it is OK, it is only the patient data that are sensitive. He will try to load them.
• Paul has some test images form CHB, they usually are calibration images. He will uplaod them in DCM4che.

4. PACS conformance statements

• Mark got the statement for GE.
• Jesse also got the statement.
• Valerie will collect them all and put them in xythos.