Tuesday, May 22, 2007
An Enhanced DICOM Archive would be the ticket!
I felt compelled to create a response to a post on auntminnie.com regarding DICOM Archives. The author of the original post thought it impossible to combine a DICOM Archive with a PACS and make it work.
"You can't just take a DICOM archive and slam a new front end on it and
expect it to work. Each of the PACS has many, many, many database and
workstation features beyond the DICOM storage of images that make them
work."
I agree, if the term "DICOM Archive" simply means an archive that stores what it is given and returns the same when it is requested.
But an Enhanced DICOM Archive, one that is additionally equipped to perform customized Tag Morphing, would not only work with any given PACS, it would also be able to exchange study data between different PACS. That alone would make such an archive very useful to a Health System that owns multiple PACS from different vendors. If that archive were also capable of triggering a pre-fetch of relevant priors based on the new Order, and an auto-route of the priors to the PACS, such an archive would be invaluable at the time any of those PACS is replaced, because it would not be necessary to migrate the study data. Now we're talking!
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