To develop and maintain the DICOM Structured Reporting specification, and to collaborate with DICOM working groups and other Standards development committees in the development of specialized reports and other documents based on the generic SR specification.

Short-Term Objectives

• Create a set of guidelines for template creators.
• Support the creation of general, reusable templates components and outlines.
• Maintain the SR infrastructure.
• Create cross-specialty SR templates.
• Develop a methodology (with a standardized graphical notation) to describe templates.
• Assist WG-20 in the integration of DICOM SR with other Standards efforts, in particular HL7, and support SR development in the various DICOM WGs.
• Provide technical support for demonstration of SR as required by IHE, MITA, etc.
• Develop a process for submitting clinical use cases and requirements for SR templates.
• Develop a means of specifying SR presentation.
• Develop a formal syntax for encoding the definition of templates and context groups in efforts to facilitate creation of a machine-readable version of these parts of the Standard.

Current Status

Working Group Eight meets infrequently, as necessary. The meetings are usually virtual.

Current Work Items

No active work items.

Risks

• Lack of adoption beyond areas well established (like KOS, RDSR, Ultrasound).
• Failure of implementers (esp. receivers) to support new replacement codes, e.g., SCT codes replacing SRT, new SCT codes replacing inactive codes, etc.

Challenges and Opportunities

• Establish co-operations with Coding Scheme providers
• Support WG-20 in the co-operation with HL7 in the field of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

Relationship to Other Standards

• HL7
• IHE
• RSNA Reporting Committee
• SNOMED
• LOINC
• UCUM
• ISO-TC215
• CEN-TC251
• ACR