To develop DICOM Standards for interchange media.

Roadmap

• Continue to evaluate new media types that are potentially suitable as they become available, esp. new compression.
• Address workflow issues related to media creation.
• Address workflow issues related to media importation to the PACS (in conjunction with IHE).

Short-Term Objectives

• Address any issues arising out of the use of IHE Portable Data for Imaging (PDI) profile.
• Address any issues arising out of the use of IHE Import Reconciliation Workflow (IRW) profile.

Current Work Items

• None.

Risks

• Physical media is growing obsolete and being replaced by network-based alternatives (but not as fast as expected).
• Continuing though diminished problem of CD readability (compliance) issues and/or viewer executability or sufficiency issues (occasional complaints are still received).

Challenges and Opportunities

• Leverage the popularity of consumer media formats.
• Avoid proliferation of excessive numbers of alternative media and profiles.
• Optimize media related workflow.
• Promote the retirement of media in favor of network-based alternatives.

Relationships to Other Standards

• An “informal” liaison with OSTA exists to harmonize efforts with respect to UDF, MOD and DVD, though no interaction has taken place with this group since UDF 2.0 was Standardized.