dcm4chee: Updating sps order status of an MWL item via HL7 and better HL7 compliance
Suppose you wish to update the sps status of an mwl item in dcm4chee, preferably in an HL7 compliant way. (Creating mwl items from scratch in dcm4chee via HL7 messages is easy and is discussed separately here.) The obvious guess…
Dcm4chee: Configuring automated backups to the cloud (or anywhere really)
In a production PACS, a common setup is to back up studies either in real-time or on a periodic basis (ie: nightly) to a more secure, longer-term storage location (aka “nearline” storage). The studies will typically persist on the local…
Dcm4chee: PACS Synchronization via Dicom Forwarding
Suppose you need to synchronize a secondary PACS with that of a primary one running dcm4chee. Perhaps this is part of a simple fault-tolerant networking solution with the secondary PACS acting as a hot-backup, or perhaps you have some other…
Understanding HL7: Updating a Modality Work List (MWL) using an ORM^O01 message
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…
DCM4CHEE: Updating the Modality Work List via HL7 / ORM^O01
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…
Dcm4chee: Getting Weasis Working w/ TLS Encryption
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…
Dcm4chee: Setting up TLS Encryption
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…
WADO Requests w/ Dcm4chee: Proper WADO URL Syntax
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…
Dcm4chee: Querying the Modality Work List (MWL) w/ the dcm4che-3 Toolkit
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…
Adventures in Open Source Healthcare IT: OpenMRS w/ DCM4CHEE
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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