RO-SSI: Radiation Oncology Safety Stakeholders Initiative Jim Schewe, PhD Philips Radiation Oncology Systems

ROSSI Industry / Clinical Collaboration to Improve RTP Safety  Primary Goals: Cooperation & Communication –Industry –Clinicians –Academia –Regulators  Improving the process requires everybody –Different roles & responsibilities –Common interest in safe & effective treatment

ROSSI Organization Leadership & Logistics Co-Chairs  Dick Fraass (Cedars-Sinai) *  Alf Siochi (U West Virginia)  Rajinder Dhada (Elekta) * –(Stephen Vastagh: MITA) * * = Main collaborators in ROSSI creation  Meets every AAPM & ASTRO –Quarterly t-cons (starting soon) –Working Groups meet ad hoc –William Jung attended at ASTRO

ROSSI Organization Working Groups  Error Messages  Quality Assurance  Training  Usability  Risk Management (new)  Each has Industry & Clinical Co-Chair  Meet Ad Hoc  Publications  Outreach

Publications Error/Warning Messages

Publications in Progress Other Working Groups  Usability –Standard Prescription Format  Handed over to ASTRO –Working on a new doc: Intelligence, Workflow, Redundancy, Transparency  Quality Assurance –Developing Guidance for a “Consortium”  Collaborate to design QA for new technologies  Examples: deformable registration, knowledge-based planning  Training –Primary focus has been outreach  Risk Management (Newly Created) –Investigation into ways of sharing RM information between vendors & clinicians (e.g templates) to improve safety

Outreach and Future Activity ASRT 2013: Training & Safety AAPM 2014: ROSSI Overview UKRO 2015: Usability and Safety: A Vendor Perspective

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