Features and Benefits

• Provides DICOM distribution of studies to recipients, selectable by study type and date/time. Receives images via DICOM transfer and organizes them into studies. Maintains short-term local cache of studies received. Can receive and send in lossless compression format for better bandwidth utilization.
• Uses rules to define subscription types. Subscription types can be used to distribute by modality, body part, patient name range, station AE, "STAT" in reason header, facility name, or generic DICOM header.
• Distributes prior studies along with current studies. Subscription types may include or exclude priors.
• Provides separate management module for day-to-day control of image distribution. Management module can be run on any computer on same network as distribution server.
• Subscriptions can be rapidly defined by choosing a predefined subscription type (e.g., MR studies with priors), a predefined recipient, and a subscription period. Subscriptions may be one-time, open-ended, or repeating on a weekly basis. If a retroactive subscription is started, older studies will be retrieved and sent. Subscriptions may be cancelled before their expiration. No limit on the number of subscriptions per recipient.
• A near-live status display is provided of all current recipients and whether they have any studies currently in the queue. Fault-tolerant operation allows send attempts to be retried indefinitely, without affecting other recipients.
• The status display provides near-live views of current subscriptions, contents of the local study cache, studies queued but not sent, and studies which have been recently sent. These views can be sorted by fields such as recipient, patient name, and patient ID, and filtered by fields such as recipient, modality or body part.
• Individual studies (e.g. bad studies, test studies) can be removed from the cache or from a recipient's queue.
• Individual studies can be queued for any recipient, e.g. to send a study for consultation.
• Provides complete HIPAA logging of studies distributed.