• Develop and maintain the long-term strategic plan of the DICOM Standards Committee (DSC)
• Consider issues and opportunities related to the strategic evolution of DICOM
• Propose issues/topics to the DSC or existing WGs and/or propose new WGs
• Provide liaison to other Standards developing organizations (SDOs)

Current Supplements, Work and Objectives

• No active workitems, supplements or CPs
• Revised Strategic Report template; rebuilding DICOM Strategic Document
• Maintaining SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) table for DICOM
• Supporting discussions on Chinese translation and testing of DICOM
• Supporting WG-29 to get DICOM website updated

Challenges and Opportunities (Environment)

• Industry focus on Health IT adoption, data portability, interoperability
• Popularity of cloud/web solutions; web-based image sharing
• Interest in analytics, mineable data and Deep Learning (image headers, SR, MPPS, etc)
• Leverage XML Editions; should we have a Value Sets Web Service?
• Concerns about security in healthcare IT
• DICOM communications/marketing is patchy/not pretty
  • Lack strong promotional direction (due to broad work and lack of long term goals/strategy/roadmap)
  • e.g. do DICOMweb now; it's "ready"; need strategy/campaign/plan
  • Don't harness MITA/COCIR well enough to promote DICOM/adoption
    • Request they report to DSC, e.g. plans to engage with ONC/epSOS, etc.
• Non-DICOM/non-medical solutions for web; see DICOM as "big iron"
  • Need strong education/promotion of DICOM-RS
• Low adoption in other -ologies (Endo, Dental, Path, …) & practice mgt SW

Future Roadmap and Objectives (Committee Direction)

• Explore a vision / "5-year-goals" for DICOM

Past Work

• Supported establishment of DICOM WG-31 (Conformance)
• Renewed DICOM as ISO12052
• Fostered WG-20 review/CP process with WG-6
• Fostered WG-13 video proposal