Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2016
Increasingly, physicians have to access clinical images distributed over multiple healthcare organizations. To this end, two DICOM protocols may be used: a regular DICOM C-STORE transaction or an HTTP-based DICOM request such as WADO or STOW. A major problem of the DICOM C-STORE transaction is that it is inefficient to transfer DICOM data sets that consist of thousands of DICOM objects (such as functional MRI data set) because of the large number of negotiations involved in the transfer.
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Stud Health Technol Inform
January 2004
The process of transmitting patient medical information between different healthcare parties involves harmonizing multiple elements: addresses, certificates, patient IDs, communication protocol, message format, and documents/EPR to be exchanged. Beyond the work done at the "information structure level" within CEN TC251, ISO TC215, HL7 and DICOM, it is necessary to focus on the "basic medical communication level." An original approach, based on the "Patient Envelope", has been developed and successfully implemented for Oncology.
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