Foreign Exam Management - Detailed Proposal

1. Proposed Workitem: Foreign Exam Management Detailed Proposal

• Proposal Editor: David Heaney
• Editor: <Name of candidate Lead Editor for the Profile, if known>
• Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
• Version: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
• Domain: Radiology

2. The Problem

The current Import Reconciliation Workflow Profile does not cover many of the use cases or feature functionality desired by customers:

- Import of prior exams (via pre-fetch 'pull' or 'push' or from removable media)

- Users often want 'priors' to be handled differently by an Image Manager/Archive

• flushed from the system rather than archived
• configurable behavior on the timing for this flushing that differs from normal workflow exams
• flushing of foreign exam Study records from database rather than just deletion of image files/objects
• requirements around when and when not a new exam order is needed for such a foreign study

3. Key Use Case

A White Paper on foreign exam management had been circulated in the XDS Implementation Group. This outlines a number of use cases and scenarios. Here is a link to that white paper:

ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Radiology/iherad-2011/Tech_Cmte/Foreign%20Study%20Management%20White%20Paper%20v0-06%20-%20Draft.pdf

4. Standards and Systems

IRWF SWF XDS-I.b MIMA IOCM