Implementing a DICOM-HL7 interface application

Steven L. Fritz; Sunita Munjal; James Connors; Deszu Csipo

doi:10.1117/12.208764

12 May 1995 Implementing a DICOM-HL7 interface application

Steven L. Fritz, Sunita Munjal, James Connors, Deszu Csipo

Proceedings Volume 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208764
Event: Medical Imaging 1995, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The DICOM standard, in addition to resolving certain problems with the ACR-NEMA 2.0 standard regarding network support and the clinical data dictionary, added new capabilities, in the form of study content notification and patient, study and results management services, intended to assist in interfacing between PACS and HIS or RIS systems. We have defined and implemented a mechanism that allows a DICOM application entity (AE) to interrogate an HL7 based RIS using DICOM services. The implementation involved development of a DICOM- HL7 gateway which converted between DICOM and HL7 messages to achieve the desired retrieval capability. This mechanism, based on the DICOM query/retrieve service, was used to interface a DeJarnette Research film digitizer to an IDXrad RIS at the University of Maryland Medical Systems hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. A C++ class library was developed for both DICOM and HL7 massaging, with several constructors used to convert between the two standards.

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Steven L. Fritz, Sunita Munjal, James Connors, and Deszu Csipo "Implementing a DICOM-HL7 interface application", Proc. SPIE 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, (12 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208764

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