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Conversion of Radiology Reporting Templates to the MRRT Standard

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In 2013, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Radiology workgroup developed the Management of Radiology Report Templates (MRRT) profile, which defines both the format of radiology reporting templates using an extension of Hypertext Markup Language version 5 (HTML5), and the transportation mechanism to query, retrieve, and store these templates. Of 200 English-language report templates published by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), initially encoded as text and in an XML schema language, 168 have been converted successfully into MRRT using a combination of automated processes and manual editing; conversion of the remaining 32 templates is in progress. The automated conversion process applied Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) scripts, an XML parsing engine, and a Java servlet. The templates were validated for proper HTML5 and MRRT syntax using web-based services. The MRRT templates allow radiologists to share best-practice templates across organizations and have been uploaded to the template library to supersede the prior XML-format templates. By using MRRT transactions and MRRT-format templates, radiologists will be able to directly import and apply templates from the RSNA Report Template Library in their own MRRT-compatible vendor systems. The availability of MRRT-format reporting templates will stimulate adoption of the MRRT standard and is expected to advance the sharing and use of templates to improve the quality of radiology reports.

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The authors thank Gerald Cameron, MS, for the development of the conversion and validation algorithms.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Charles E. Kahn Jr.

  2. Agfa Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Brad Genereaux

  3. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Curtis P. Langlotz

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Kahn, C.E., Genereaux, B. & Langlotz, C.P. Conversion of Radiology Reporting Templates to the MRRT Standard. J Digit Imaging 28, 528–536 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-015-9787-3

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