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PACS OTechU online course

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Product Code: OUP-106

Course Objectives
You will be able to:

Distinguish between the different health care IT domains and identify applicable standards (DICOM/HL7) .
Identify which interface standard and standard component impacts workflow, presentation of information and image quality.
Analyze and compare interface specifications.

Skills Taught
After the course you will be able to:

Specify which standards and services/profiles to be used for successful integration.
Evaluate vendor proposals for health care IT implementations from a technical integration perspective.
Interpret the basic DICOM and HL7 message structure and IHE profile definitions.

Course Contents

Lesson 1: Healthcare Standards
After this lesson you will be able to:

Classify the various interface components into different levels.
Extrapolate standardization beyond physical, network, and application levels.
Compare the DICOM, HL7 and IHE definitions.
Distinguish how some standards use a client server mechanism and how some are trigger event based.
Analyze the role of DICOM, HL7 and profile definitions such as defined by IHE in the context of interoperability and integration.

Lesson 2: HL7
After this lesson you will be able to:

Interpret the different segments from a HL7 message and identify their function.
Analyze a HL7 message using a sample registration and report transaction.
Recall the most important messages in the context of medical imaging, i.e. orders, admissions and results.
Recognize the various HL7 2.x versions and detect how backwards compatibility is achieved.
Discriminate the most important fields in a typical message through its easy to interpret ASCII text encoding.

Lesson 3: DICOM Protocol and Encoding
After this lesson you will be able to:

Distinguish the difference between the DICOM Protocol components and DICOM data formats.
Analyze for a connection the two steps in the DICOM protocol, i.e. negotiation and negotiated information transfer .
Interpret the definition of SOP Class and Instance and how it is used to define device functionality.
Recognize the different roles (SCU, SCP) for each DICOM service and explain workflow impact.
Investigate a DICOM dump understanding the VR encoding of attributes.
Determine how codes from the different vocabularies are used in the context of the DICOM data formats.

Lesson 4: DICOM Services
After this lesson you will be able to:

Specify which DICOM services apply to what parts of the imaging workflow and map these accordingly on the various activities.
Recognize the various DICOM services in a vendor interface specification and identify the impact of their presence or non-presence on the workflow.
Specify which DICOM services are required for serviceability (Verification), basic image and information communication (Store, Query/Retrieve) and image and information management (Modality Worklist, Storage Commitment and Modality Performed Procedure Step).
Formulate the importance of image quality, and consistency as well as persistency, in the form of DICOM Presentation State and DICOM Greyscale Display Function support .

Lesson 5: IHE
After this lesson you will be able to:

Apply the various IHE profiles to limit choices in using the standards to increase interoperability.
Classify the various system components into actors and transactions.
Analyze workflow diagrams as specified being part of a specific profile definition.
Distinguish the IHE profiles and categorize them according to the various domains.
Specify which profiles are critical to support the imaging and reporting workflow.

OCT 5-7
Comprehensive DICOM Certification

OCT 8-9
Comprehensive HL7: V2 and FHIR

NOV 9
PACS On-line Core Essentials

NOV 10
HL7 v2 On-line Core Essentials

NOV 11
DICOM On-line Core Essentials

NOV 12
HL7 FHIR On-line Core Essentials

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