The PACS Server

Matching Criteria

The PACS attempts to match orders to incoming imaging studies, current studies to prior studies, and other object pairs. The rules used to determine which two objects belong together are defined on the Matching Criteria page.

To access the Matching Criteria page:

1. Go to Admin/System Settings
2. Select the System tab
3. In the Matching Criteria area select Configure

The Matching Criteria page consists of the following sections:

• Default Correction Sources - Specifies the source of the default data value used when merging an order and images
  • Select the source and set by clicking Change
  • Temporary column -  indicates value is taken from the source device and used when displayed in the browser or viewer, but the value is not stored in the actual image object
• Correction List Criteria - Defines the criteria used to build the matching studies list on the correction page. The study list is sorted in the order displayed in this list. Put the most likely set of matching fields at the top of the list
• Free Text Fields: When manually correcting studies to orders, users can select values from the order, the study or insert any value from the web page. If an administrator wishes to remove the option to enter a value manually, set this setting to No
• Auto-correction Matching Criteria - Defines the fields that must match in both the order and image object in order for the system to automatically merge the two
• Patient Matching Criteria - Defines the matching pattern used to search remote archives for prior studies matching the current study.