Use a message flow that contains a DICOMFindMove node to query a DICOM PACS for metadata from specified patients, studies, or series to display in a clinical portal application.
When clinical staff are reviewing cases, it is useful if they can have access to a single unified view of a patient's information. A clinical portal can present a patient’s studies (sets of DICOM images) in a web application that can be used by clinicians. In this case, the pixel data (scanned image or structured report) is not presented, just the attributes for each study, for example, the modality and date of the study.
To collect all the information, a IBM® Integration Bus message flow is configured to receive a search query from a clinical portal application. A DICOMFindMove node uses one or more search keys from the message to query the hospital's DICOM Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) to find any matching records. Metadata from the matching records is returned to the DICOMFindMove node and then sent to the clinical portal for display.
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The following diagram shows an example.