Recently I’ve been playing with putting together a basic Radiology Information System (RIS), and one of the things that came up was how to add to a modality worklist (MWL) via an appropriately chosen HL7 message. In my setup, the…
Adding an item to dcm4chee’s modality work list (MWL) via an HL7 message is at first glance quite simple. For example sending the following ORM^O01 message: via the command-line using hl7snd from the dcm4che toolkit should work right out of…
After having set up dcm4chee w/ TLS encryption and gleefully performing a few dcmsnds or dcmqrs, you may find yourself a bit frustrated to discover that Weasis no longer seems to work with dcm4chee via weasis-pacs-connector. Note: This is a…
Here we discuss how to set up TLS encryption in dcm4chee2.x for both the server and client. TLS encryption allows for secure communication between the two parties, one which is impervious to snoopers, interceptors and fakers. In an upcoming article…
One thing I soon discovered after diving into the wordpress world was the prevalence of malicious attacks on even the most innocuous and smallest of sites (for example, the blog of your’s truly). WordPress is a popular platform, and this…
I noticed that in the past few months this site has gone down a few times for unexpected reasons, and more worryingly, that these down times were not caught by my naive nagios setup, which was setup only to ping the server….
Dcm4chee is a fairly impressive open source PACS system that can handle some pretty heavy work loads. Being the self-respecting PACS that it is, it also comes with a WADO service, which is a standard way for a PACS systems…
Suppose your organization needs to ensure a collection of web services are up and running and responding to client requests as expected. You also need to be able to know with minimal latency when something goes wrong, so that your…
A modality work list (MWL) is an important concept in radiology IT. An MWL can be thought of as a TODO list of radiology orders (usually stored on a server as part of a radiology information system, or “RIS”) that…
I spent the past few days installing and playing around with OpenMRS and DCM4CHEE. OpenMRS is an open source medical records system which I am told is popular in clinics around the developing world. It’s original use-case was providing the…
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