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The Importance of Body Part Labeling to Enable Enterprise Imaging: A HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Collaborative White Paper
- Source :
- Journal of Digital Imaging
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- In order for enterprise imaging to be successful across a multitude of specialties, systems, and sites, standards are essential to categorize and classify imaging data. The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community believes that the Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Anatomic Region Sequence, or its equivalent in other data standards, is a vital data element for this role, when populated with standard coded values. We believe that labeling images with standard Anatomic Region Sequence codes will enhance the user’s ability to consume data, facilitate interoperability, and allow greater control of privacy. Image consumption—when a user views a patient’s images, he or she often wants to see relevant comparison images of the same lesion or anatomic region for the same patient automatically presented. Relevant comparison images may have been acquired from a variety of modalities and specialties. The Anatomic Region Sequence data element provides a basis to allow for efficient comparison in both instances. Interoperability—as patients move between health care systems, it is important to minimize friction for data transfer. Health care providers and facilities need to be able to consume and review the increasingly large and complex volume of data efficiently. The use of Anatomic Region Sequence, or its equivalent, populated with standard values enables seamless interoperability of imaging data regardless of whether images are used within a site or across different sites and systems. Privacy—as more visible light photographs are integrated into electronic systems, it becomes apparent that some images may need to be sequestered. Although additional work is needed to protect sensitive images, standard coded values in Anatomic Region Sequence support the identification of potentially sensitive images, enable facilities to create access control policies, and can be used as an interim surrogate for more sophisticated rule-based or attribute-based access control mechanisms. To satisfy such use cases, the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community encourages the use of a pre-existing body part ontology. Through this white paper, we will identify potential challenges in employing this standard and provide potential solutions for these challenges.
- Subjects :
- Diagnostic Imaging
Standards
Computer science
Interoperability
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
Access control
Ontology (information science)
DICOM
HIMSS-SIIM White Paper
Photo documentation
Electronic Health Records
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Use case
Human Body
Data element
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Ontology
business.industry
Enterprise Imaging
Digital imaging
Medical Photography
Data science
Computer Science Applications
Identification (information)
Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1618727X and 08971889
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Digital Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....82459cde25ffe621c166ae866acdf8f6