CTSC:ARRA.111009

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Agenda

1. Feedback from meeting about SHRINE
2. C-find against PACS, planning for a technical test

Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group Meeting Minutes November 10, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Yong Gao
• Mike Mendis
• Alexander Zaitsev
• Wendy Plesniak
• Jesse Wei
• Randy Gollub
• Shawn Murphy
• Mark Anderson
• Steve Piper
• Bill Hanlon
• Kathy Andriole
• Charles Guttmann

Feedback on the meeting of the imaging consortium with Susanne Churchill about SHRINE

• Susanne Churchill gave a presentation of SHRINE business rules, see minutes from the meeting: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/CTSC:TTIC.111009. There is no conflict with the mi2b2 project, we even will be able to use the same framework. The next action item is to get on the agenda of the meeting of the Senior Vice-presidents of Research of each institution with the Catalyst leadership (Nov 19).

Discussion

• The group decided that by February 1st 2010, the technical details of the project must be written.
• The first step is to get some software connections to the Radiology PACS. We must learn the way to do it at each institution/
  • Osirix might be the software of choice, even if it use only a MAC platform, because it is open source, widely used and already known by the PACS system.
  • We will need to get a table with the inventory of the PACS systems (brand, manager name, person of contact for the project ...)
  • Bill mentioned that at each site we must become an authorized user. That means getting an IP address. It is then crucial to know who at each institution gives access to the IP address. The person who owns the IP address will thus be granted access to the PCS.
  • Having a special dataset (no patient data) to play with would be very useful. According to Mark there is already one at BWH.
  • To be compliant with the IRB processes, all the person involved in this project should be CITI trained.