Enterprise Imaging VNATopic number: 1673019203587
When deployed as a VNA, AGFA HealthCare Enterprise Imaging offers centralized storage management that is both scalable and reliable. The VNA also enables sharing of patient imaging data across disparate PACS systems, whether they are other Enterprise Imaging instances or third-party PACS systems.
These features and enhancements supporting Enterprise Imaging VNA are available in Enterprise Imaging 8.2.2:
Automatically fix studies using order-based identifiers to accommodate systems that require them
When an incoming study matches on patient ID and accession number, but not on study UID, Enterprise Imaging can now be configured to perform an auto-fix that assigns it the order-based study UID or the modality-based study UID.
Previously, modality-based study UIDs were always used when fixing study data. However, certain HIS/RIS do not support modality-generated study UIDs.
To accommodate these systems, administrators can configure Enterprise Imaging to apply order-based study UIDs instead. To ensure that auto-fixes are not applied too aggressively — for example, to studies still queued when an ORM update arrive — administrators can set whether Enterprise Imaging is allowed to perform automatic QC fixup, and if so, how long to wait before updating the study UID.
Enhanced fixup rules ensure that updated studies are accepted by strictly compliant DICOM systems
When updating study demographics to match procedure information from the RIS, Enterprise Imaging previously retained the study’s existing instance UID. External systems such as VNAs that are strictly compliant with the DICOM standard require that all instance UIDs be unique. They will therefore reject fixed studies with reused instance UIDs.
To better support strictly compliant systems, Enterprise Imaging can be configured to generate new instance UIDs for fixed studies. When so configured, IOCM incorrect modality worklist rejection notes are generated for the original study, rather than IOCM data retention expiry notes. Using these types of rejection notes ensures that DICOM compliant systems reject the original study and replace them with copies that have new instance and series UIDs.