Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging
Summary
The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) Profile provides a solution for sharing (publishing, finding and retrieving) imaging documents across a group of affiliated enterprises. Imaging documents include the following:-Imaging studies that include images acquired on a broad range of different modalities, as well as evidence documents (e.g. post-processing measurements/analysis outcome), and presentation states; -Diagnostic reports resulting from the interpretation of one or more related imaging studies provided in a ready-for-display form; -A selection of diagnostically significant images associated with the report content.
Benefits
XDS-I enables imaging information to be shared in a community or region by allowing radiology departments, private physicians, clinics, long term care, acute care with different clinical IT systems to contribute and access (query and retrieve) imaging documents (images and reports) of interest.
Details
An Imaging Document Source that wants to share a set of images and/ or imaging information objects such as a presentation state constructs a DICOM manifest that references the DICOM instances that are to be published. The manifest along with metadata is submitted to the Document Repository. The metadata describes the information that is shared. Besides information about the patient and information required by the XDS profile, the Imaging Document Source provides metadata information that is image specific such as the type of imaging procedure, the modality and the anatomic region. Images and/ or imaging information objects that are made available are not transferred to the Document Repository. Instead, the Imaging Document Source is required to make them available to be retrieved.
An Imaging Document Consumer that is interested in retrieving previously published imaging information, queries the registry ( i.e. find all CT of the Head of patient John Doe for the last 2 years) and retrieves the manifest of interest. The Imaging Document Consumer decodes the manifest to extract the identifiers that uniquely identifies the available imaging information. The Imaging Document Consumer retrieves the images and/ or imaging information objects from the Imaging Document Source.
An Imaging Document Source that wants to share an imaging report constructs a document that is shared either in a PDF and /or CDA (containing only text) format. The report is submitted to the Document Repository.
A Document Consumer (any Document Consumer and not only Imaging Document Consumer) that is interested in retrieving previously published imaging report, queries the registry and retrieves the report from the Document Repository.
Systems Affected
PACS and Workstation might implement Imaging Document Source to provide and submit images and/ or imaging reports. RIS might implement Imaging Document Source to provide and submit imaging reports. PACS, Workstation, RIS and non-radiology workstation might implement Imaging Document Consumer to retrieve and display images and imaging reports.
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Specification
Profile Status: Final Text
Documents:
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Underlying Standards:
- DICOM
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See Also
Related Profiles
This profile depends on IT Infrastructure Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
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