Terminology owner/maintenance organisation

Name, contact details, website

Medical Imaging Technology Alliance (a division of NEMA), 
1300 North 17th Street, Suite 900, Arlington, Virginia 22209
https://www.medicalimaging.org

mailto:dicom@dicomstandard.org

Formal name of the code system

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

Short name or abbreviation of the code system name

DICOM
Technical identifier/s of the code system (OIDs, URNs etc)
OID: 1.2.840.10008.2.16.4

URI: http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM

URN:

Scope/domain statement for the code system

(Official or from HTA)

DICOM® (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information.

DICOM primarily adopts existing codes from SNOMED, LOINC, UCUM, IEEE, etc. into DICOM code sets referred to as Context Groups (CIDs).  DICOM also defines new codes for concepts that do not clearly fall into those other coding schemes.

Coded concepts defined in "PS 3.16" Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine (DICOM) - Part 16: Content Mapping Resource, Annex D: DICOM Controlled Terminology Definition

Link to information about the code system - including how to obtain the content

https://www.dicomstandard.org/current/

http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part16/PS3.16.html

Note: lists of codes can be found in PS3.18 (also known as Part 18)

Arrangement or agreements with HL7 for use of content

Free for use

IP Information and Licensing Information

The DICOM Standard is managed by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance a division of NEMA.
DICOM Publications and DICOMWeb Publications are published by and copyright owned by NEMA.
No license is required to download or implement the DICOM Standard.

HL7 users of this information - which HL7 products use this link (if known)

HL7 v. 2.x, HL7 v.3.3, HL7 FHIR

Process to request content change

Small changes, such as adding or correcting codes, are called Change Proposals (CPs) which are processed by DICOM Working Group 6 (WG-6).  https://www.dicomstandard.org/submitcp
Large extensions to the standard are called Supplements and follow a Workitem approval and development process.  https://www.dicomstandard.org/submitworkitem

Other useful Information

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Information current as at (date)

2020-09-02
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9 Comments

  1. Sylvia Thun

    DICOM is not a terminology. DICOM uses IEEE 11073 (Rosetta) and Radlex.

    1. John Moehrke

      it is true that some of DICOM does use IEEE 11073, but DICOM is an author of vocabulary.

      Please contact the co-chairs of the joint HL7/DICOM workgroup known in HL7 as "Imaging Integration" Christopher Lindopand Jonathan Whitby


  2. Kevin O'Donnell

    Thanks John. I added some text and tidy up above to reflect that.  Hope that's appropriate.

  3. Julie James

    Thanks, Kevin O'Donnell One of our challenges, and indeed one of the main reasons we publish these pages, is to try to find who can authoritatively provide the information that the community needs about these code systems.  DICOM and more particularly IEEE is something I've asked Melvin Reynolds and previous co-chairs of the II WG about in the past, so having up-to-date information and contacts for the community is great, thank you.

    1. John Moehrke

      for IEEE 11073 I would recommend Paul Schluter as he is the owner of the Rosetta

  4. Caroline Macumber

    Julie James - the URL documented here (https://www.dicomstandard.org/) in 2019, may not have been intended to be used as a URI for the DICOM coded concepts. We did have a more specific URL (http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part16/PS3.16.html) in the additional information section. The URI "http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM" has been used by HL7 implementers and redirects to the latter link above. I'd suggest we update this HTA page to be consistent (i.e., change the URI to "http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM") and work with UTG to ensure all of it's resources reflect the same. Ted Klein

  5. Caroline Macumber

    Jessica Bota please start the process in UTG Jira to make the DICOM change

  6. Jessica Bota

    Hi all. The DICOM changes have been created and submitted. See  UP-96 - Getting issue details... STATUS . 

    This ticket is in Consensus Review, so please review and vote to push the changes through. Please see Vocabulary Maintenance at HL7 for more info on becoming a Reviewer and links to documentation for the voting process. Please reach out if you have any questions. 

  7. Jessica Bota

    Hi all, friendly reminder to vote on this proposal (see comment above). Caroline Macumber Julie James Reuben Daniels