Japanese Activities on DICOM

Hidenori ShinodaJIRA

September 7, 2006Barcelona

Recent Activities

• Some materials for DICOM conference in Budapest were translated into Japanese and is now on the JIRA’s Web site.

• JJ1017 version 3.0 document in English version is also on the same site.

• IHE Vendor workshop for Japanese vendors was held on July 19 and 20. Now we are in the phase of registration for connectathon.

Recent Activities –to be continued

• A project for sharing clinical information of stroke patients among several healthcare institutions has started.– The region for the project is Nagoya and about 30

hospitals and clinics will join the project.– JIRA will join and work with JAHIS to develop a

guideline to adopt DICOM standard for the project. CT, MR, X-ray, 3D images may be shared with several healthcare institutions.

Future activities• We have started discussions on developing EHR.

– We have classified clinical information that would be used for EHR. Clinical summaries, lab results, images, waveforms, etc.

– As the first step, HL7-Japan standardized documents recorded on media. And we will investigate use cases for distributing the media.

– The format for it is CDA2.– Some doctors say that they need clinical summaries should

link to a few specific images. Therefore, we have to have KIN profile for Japanese clinical sites.

Future Activities-to be continued– We will have to have common interpretations of

DICOM tags. Currently, sometimes the interpretation differs from vendor to vendor. That has sometimes caused to disturb sharing image information among facilities.