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The OTech advanced seminars are provided on-site at your facility. The contents can be
customized depending on the specific needs. The following offerings are available:
1. IHE training (1day)
The Integrating the Health care Enterprise (IHE) activity has become a major driver to
facilitate connectivity, especially between information systems and PACS. This seminar
discusses the characteristics of IHE year 3, the DICOM and HL7 services used, and goes
through the IHE documentation in detail.
2. New DICOM services (1/2 day)
The DICOM standard is continuously being updated. new services are being defined that
are critical to be required by end-users and to be implemented by vendors. This seminar
focuses on those new extensions, which include General Purpose Worklist, Security
enhancements, Structured Reporting, DVD Media, JPEG200 (Wavelet) compression, as well
as Image quality.
3. Cardiology and waveforms (1/2 day)
Cardiology has been slowly to adapt the DICOM standards. The reasons are the potential
burden on the available bandwidth, because of the sheer size of the CINE runs, as well
as the additional information that is needed by cardiologists. This seminar gives an
appreciation of the operation and workflow in the department, and discusses the new DICOM
extensions to encode waveforms, and other cardiology information such as procedure logs
and hemodynamics information. The latter is done by the DICOM Structured Reporting mechanism.
4. DICOM Structured Reporting - SR (one day)
Structured Reporting is a recent DICOM extension that has a major impact on the throughput
and efficiency of a radiologist. It uses templates that allow a physician to enter the
information in a systematic manner. The output can be relatively easily expressed in XML,
which makes for a seamless conversion into HL7 version 3.0, and allows for a variety of
presentation options. Unfortunately, there are many Structured Reporting applications
that are non-standard based, therefore not allowing exchange between different vendors.
DICOM SR is a major step toward interoperability. SR also has specific applications for
measurements, CAD output, the identification of Key Images in a study, procedure logs and
many more. SR has been demonstrated as part of the IHE at RSNA and HIMSS since 2000. There
is a public domain prototype implementation and several examples available. This seminar
is either for clinicians who want to learn how to migrate their SR applications to a
standard format or for implementers.
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