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SIIM 2024 Update: Hackathon Edition

SIIM 2024 Update: Hackathon Edition

It was terrific to see so many friends and collaborators in Washington last week—and especially such good attendance at our in-person meeting. I'll have a post summarizing that meeting later this week. In the meantime, a debrief on our SIIM Hackathon project: as you may recall, our

Attaching Ontology Links to Common Data Elements

Attaching Ontology Links to Common Data Elements

The Problem One of the biggest challenges in the creation of Common Data Elements (CDEs) is the integration with different ontologies. Each system—whether it’s SNOMED, RadLex, or Anatomic Locations—organizes medical concepts differently, often with overlapping codes and varying terminologies. As discussed in the last post, thousands of

Counting Down to SIIM

Counting Down to SIIM

This isn't a post—it's a promise. We're going to try to do at least a brief post every day here leading up to the SIIM meeting next week! Getting very excited to see everyone there, both informally and all together at the in-person

SIIM In-Person Meeting

We're going to meet in-person at SIIM in Washington—we're going to be in Baltimore 1–2 from 7–8a Eastern on Friday, June 28. Agenda * CDE committee update for the vendor community * RadElement and MARVAL sites * Review process * Update on OIDM progress * CDE content enabling

SIIM Hackathon Project

SIIM Hackathon Project

We will be working on the tooling around improving the utility of CDE Sets at the SIIM Hackathon this year! We already have a toolchain that lets us nearly automate the process of generating CDE Set definitions, including some techniques using LLMs for assistance (post on this soon!) At the

OIDM Data Model/Library Meeting Summary 2024–01–26

Agenda/Notes of the Meeting * Introduction of ideas * Need to try to connect to standards * IHE: IRA profile in FHIR 3.0 * HL7 * Idea of using in other areas * PACS viewer * Workflow manager * Outcome tracking * Would this be more like a protocol or an actual runtime? * Could imagine both—integrated,

Data Model: Structure and Function

Data Model: Structure and Function

In our article on OIDM-based reporting assistance, we described a framework by which a reporting system exposes data about the current reporting context to plugins, which are then able to use that context to potentially offer assistance back to the reporting radiologist via standardized commands. Let's take a

2024 New Year Update

2024 New Year Update

Hello OIDM Community! We're excited to bring you some key updates following a busy period leading up to RSNA. Our community has seen remarkable developments, and we’re eager to share them with you. OIDM Assisted Reporting Framework Enhancements At RSNA, Nuance showcased advanced capabilities of the OIDM-based

How to Get Involved

OIDM relies on multidisciplinary collaboration with both clinical and technical personas. Interested in getting involved with the OIDM team? Keep reading to find out how you can contribute to the OIDM's ongoing initiatives! 1. Register on this site * Receive newsletters for the latest updates and details for ongoing

OIDM-Based Next-gen Reporting Assistance Framework

One of the key ideas of the OIDM framework is to enable the creation of tools that work within the systems that make up the imaging informatics ecosystem — the reporting tool, PACs, viewer, the worklist manager, and data exploration tools. What would this look like in the context of the

SIIM Update

First, welcome to the new OIDM newsletter/website! You're signed up; you can set login credentials if you want to be able to comment on the pages as we develop them. In-person Meeting Had a great in-person meeting: it was really terrific to see so many interested folks,

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Findings, CDEs, and Observations

Radiology findings can be represented in a standard format based on FHIR Observations semantically labeled with ACR/RSNA Common Data Element identifiers. The core of the ORDM model is the Observation structure, which represents a single observation or finding. An Observation represents an imaging finding (broadly construed; for examples, see

Building Our Home

We've selected a blogging platform here, and we're going to start bringing the content from the old site over and creating the new pages needed to support our burgeoning community! So far, we've got the About page—check it out, offer comments as you