DICOM 2014 (a)

Yesterday, the 2014a edition of the DICOM standard has been made available. This is the first time, the standard has been updated directly after a meeting of the Working Group 6 (WG-06). Compared to the previous edition from April this year, 3 supplements and 43 correction items (CPs) have been incorporated. The next edition (“2014b”) will probably be published after the WG-06 has met again in September and released the supplements and CPs that were approved by the DICOM committee as “final text”.

The announcement of MITA, a division of NEMA, on the DICOM 2013 standard said:

The updated DICOM Standard is the first and only healthcare information technology standard to be published in a machine-readable (DocBook) XML form in addition to traditional PDF and Microsoft Word forms so that software and validation tools can directly import details of the standard. By eliminating the need to manually transcode some details of the standard, the new format will save time and help avoid errors. It will also make it feasible to update and republish the DICOM Standard on a quarterly basis, so information can be updated more frequently.

We have taken the opportunity to update the current development version of the DCMTK again regarding the data dictionary, i.e. we have generated the “dicom.dic” file from the machine-readable DocBook version of part 6 and 7 of the DICOM standard. Since the data dictionary was already up-to-date regarding the recently approved Supplements and CPs, there are no changes apart from the name of the underlying DICOM standard edition.

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