DICOM storage into PACS of out-hospital CD-ROMs - a half year experience report
| Autor: | van Ooijen, PMA, ten Bhomer, PJM, Blecourt, MJ, Roosjen, R, van Dam, R, Oudkerk, A, Lemke, HU, Inamura, K, Doi, K, Vannier, MW, Farman, AG |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | CARS 2005: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 883-887 STARTPAGE=883;ENDPAGE=887;TITLE=CARS 2005: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ics.2005.03.114 |
| Popis: | With the advance of digitalization of radiology departments, the interchange of data between institutions is shifting towards shipment of CD-ROMs instead of physical film. Although this is a positive change in terms of costs, it also has its downsides. One of the main problems is how to integrate these CD-ROMs in the normal workflow. Although most CD-ROMs are equipped with a dedicated viewer, these viewers are different per vendor and thus users have to learn to operate many different software packages. Some of the software packages also require installation on the local workstation, which is not always allowed. To solve these problems, we have to include the data from the CD-ROMs into the normal hospital workflow. To achieve this, a beta-version of a software packages was evaluated (DICOM Litebox; ETIAM, France). This software package reads all DICOM files from the CD-ROM, reconciliates the DICOM header and stores the DICOM files into the PACS. A pilot in 77 CD-ROMs clearly showed the advantage of the procedure, all CD-ROMs were Successfully stored into the PACS and thus available using the normal viewers within the hospital, During the first half year after implementing procedure, changes were made only to store second opinion cases into the PACS, all other data was only stored on the web-server and will be removed after 2 years. (c) 2005 CARS & Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved. |
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