Proposal for IHE New Domain : Endoscopy

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Proposal for IHE New Domain Endoscopy

• IHE Japan, JAMI, JAHIS
• JAMI Japan Association for Medical Informatics
• JAHIS Japan Association of Healthcare
  Information Systems Industry

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• New Domain and Domain Sponsors
• Domain Name Endoscopy
• Sponsoring Organization Name
• JAMI (Japan Association for Medical Informatics)
• JAHIS (Japan Association of Healthcare
  Information Systems
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  Industry)
• Name of Primary Contact Atsushi Amano
• Title Vice Chair, Medical Image System Committee
  of JAHIS

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• The scope of interest to be addressed by the
  domain.(1/2)
• Scope Statement of the proposed domain
• IHE Endoscopy will address information sharing,
  workflow and patient care where endoscopes are
  used.
• Gastrointestinal and other area where endoscopies
  are used are the scope of the interest.
• It is affected by systems and activities in
  hospital endoscopy departments or endoscopy
  private offices.
• Notable interoperability/information sharing
  problems to be addressed
• Many of the communication between department
  system and hospital-wide enterprise system are
  composed of proprietary protocol. Even in the
  cases that employ HL7 and DICOM standards, each
  implementation is different.
• Because of the situation, both users and vendors
  experience difficulty in not only defining
  interoperability functional requirement, but also
  quality, cost and development time.

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• 3.The scope of interest to be addressed by the
  domain.(2/2)
• Rational for creating the new domain
• Although a lot of similarities are seen between
  endoscopy and other domains like radiology,
  endoscopy has its own workflow.
• First major difference is that the performer is
  not a technician but medical doctor. Therefore,
  sometimes different examination than ordered is
  done. Also as it is done by doctor, report is
  always necessary for the examination, it means we
  need report relating description in fundamental
  endoscopy profile.
• The second major difference is the number of
  inter-department order. Once the doctor conduct
  biopsy, anatomical pathology order is needed.
  Biopsy is a popular performance in endoscopy.
• Those are just examples. Such understanding of
  the differences is necessary to define endoscopy
  technical framework. And the place, where the
  persons who know endoscopy well meet together, is
  demanded.

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Schedule (tentative)

• 2010
• March Proposed to IHE International Board
• May IHE Int Board approve (hopefully)
• June 1st Preparation meeting on t-con
• August 2nd Preparation meeting on t-con
• November 1st Face-to-face meeting at MEDICA
• 2011
• Development of TF
• 2012
• Publish TF for trial implementation
• Publish TF as Final text
• In Japan
• Working on the draft TF now
• The Connectathon for endoscopy will be held this
  year.