Features and Benefits

• Acts as DICOM Store Service Class Provider (SCP) to received images from other DICOM devices.
• Acts as DICOM Query/Retrieve SCP and DICOM Modality Worklist SCP.
• Automatically logs all DICOM communications with the service.
• Validates all attempted DICOM associations with the service, logging the IP address and AE title of the SCU attempting the association.
• Only associations that match both the IP address and AE title are accepted.
• Supports all standard DICOM transfer protocols, including Explicit and Implicit Little Endian, lossless or lossy JPEG, and lossless or lossy JPEG2000. Images are saved in the protocol they were transferred in, so that lossy compressed motion ultrasound clips are not expanded into uncompressed mode before being saved.
• Stores images in a file structure that mimics the conventional file room on any standard network storage device such as RAID, NAS, or SAN.
• Configurable to store images in uncompressed, JPEG lossless, or JPEG2000 lossless form. Studies received in lossy compressed form are stored in same form.
• Builds SQL table entries for images for later query and retrieval.
• Maintains HIPAA logging database for all workstations.
• Automatically updates patient name in SQL database based on most recently received study.
• Automatically forwards to multiple configurable locations
• Automatically prefetches prior studies for patients