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i2b2 to XNAT to DICOM architecture and workflow

Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group Meeting Minutes January 19, 2010

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Mike Mendis
• Shawn Murphy
• Bill Tellier
• Mark Anderson
• Randy Gollub
• Yong Gao
• Paul Lamonica
• Steve Piper
• Wendy Plesniak
• Alex Zeitsev
• Charles McGow
• Paul Lamonica
• Gordon Harris
• Dan Marcus
• Charles Guttmann
• Bruce Rosen
• Ron Kikinis
• Diane Keough
• Jesse Wei
• Bill Hanlon

• Summary of last week meeting:
  • Our goal is to create a new cell for i2b2 to allow the PACS of each institution to communicate with i2b2 and XNAT.
  • This new application is called the STAR software.

• i2b2 to XNAT to DICOM:
  • i2b2 can generate a list of patients who have images that a PI wants to acquire from the PACS (and then send to XNAT)
  • The jobs of the STAR software are:
    • understand how to communicate using DICOM messages.
    • understand the restrictions to the PACS so it does not bring the down PACS.
    • to satisfy Radiology department apprehensions about a software getting access to their PACS.
    • make sure only authorized people can get access to the data.

• Workflow:
  • How do we get images out? From an accession number (also known by others systems of hospitals), one can get access to a study.