Custom FHIR Resources Definition of Detailed Radiation Information for Dose Management Systems

Abderrazek Boufahja, Steven Nichols, Vincent Pangon

2021

Abstract

Medical diagnostic imaging dose management systems aggregate and calculate irradiation dose generated by acquisition modalities, collected through standardized methods such as DICOM®, HL7® or proprietary interfaces. Irradiation dose information is valuable to multiple stakeholders, such as, general practitioners (GP), nationalized dose registries, patient facing applications, and information systems, such as, the Radiology Information System (RIS) or Electronic Health Record (EHR). For Medical Physicists, the radiation data is used to perform patient cohort and statistical analysis as part of a dose management program. However, there is no standardized, lightweight method to exchange the collected dose information with third party applications, through RESTful APIs. In this paper, we define a methodology to expose the content of the Radiation Dose DICOM® SR data models as custom HL7® FHIR® resources. This methodology leverages the strength of FHIR® in defining and exchanging resources, and the strength of the DICOM® SR data models, as their structure is implemented, maintained, and tested by dozens of modality providers.}

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Boufahja A., Nichols S. and Pangon V. (2021). Custom FHIR Resources Definition of Detailed Radiation Information for Dose Management Systems. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-490-9, SciTePress, pages 467-474. DOI: 10.5220/0010251104670474

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf21,
author={Abderrazek Boufahja and Steven Nichols and Vincent Pangon},
title={Custom FHIR Resources Definition of Detailed Radiation Information for Dose Management Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2021},
pages={467-474},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010251104670474},
isbn={978-989-758-490-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Custom FHIR Resources Definition of Detailed Radiation Information for Dose Management Systems
SN - 978-989-758-490-9
AU - Boufahja A.
AU - Nichols S.
AU - Pangon V.
PY - 2021
SP - 467
EP - 474
DO - 10.5220/0010251104670474
PB - SciTePress