Key Image Note

Key Image Note (KIN) lets users flag images as significant (e.g. for referring, for surgery, etc.) and add notes.

Summary

The Key Image Note Integration Profile enables a user to flag as significant one or more images in a study by referencing them in a note linked with the study. This note includes a title stating the purpose of the flagged images and a user comment field. These notes will be properly stored, archived and displayed as the images move among systems that support the profile. Physicians may attach key image notes to images for a variety of purposes: referring physician access, teaching files selection, consultation with other departments, and image quality issues, to name a few.

Benefits

• The KIN profile provides a means to attach "electronich post-it(tm)" notes to images to improve communication between different participants in the imaging workflow.
• Improved query mechanism to ease access to images for specific uses (e.g. for use in teachning files, for surgery, for refering phyhsicians, to investigate quality issues ...

Details

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Systems Affected

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• PACS systems may store, manage, and/or display Evidence Documents.
• Display systems may query, retrieve and display Evidence Documents.
• Reporting workstations may retrieve, process and include details from Evidence Documents in reports

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Specification

Profile Status: Final Text

Documents:

IHE Radiology Technical Framework:

• Vol 1 - Section 8 (KIN Profile)
• Vol. 2 - Section 4.10, Section 4.14, Section 4.16, and 4.29 to 4.31

Underlying Standards:

• DICOM

See Also

Related Profiles

• Reporting Workflow [RWF] may use Key Image Notes as inputs to the reporting process.
• Simple Image & Numeric Reports [SINR] may include Key Images in the report.
• Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging [XDS-I] can be used to share Key Images between sites over a network.
• Portable Data for Imaging [PDI] can store Key Images on media such as CDs.

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