PACS Integration

Summary

This enhancement to PACS Integration adds a PACS configuration option to allow sites to concurrently support integrations with both the Intelerad PACS viewer and GE's PACS-IW viewer by forcing the Accession Number to be used (even if an External Study Identifier value exists), as is required by Intelerad.

Feature Description

Previously, RIS integration would "fall back" the external_study_identifier value when absent and use the accession_number value instead, as required for Intelerad integration.

However, sites wishing to integrate with PACS-IW will be populating this external_study_indentifier column with NCD values from PACS IW. To support this workflow, the Intelerad integration needs to be configurable so as to look directly at accession_number.

With this change, a new PACS configuration option called UseAccessionNumber can be used in the Config Options field of the PACS Server lookup table.

·         The default value of False maintains the existing behavior of attempting to use external_study_identifier and then fall back to accession_number.

·         When set to True, it will force the use of accession number even if the study has an external_study_identifier value.

Configuration Instructions

RIS Client

Changes to PACSServer Configuration

·         Update the PACSServer for each PACS-IW server by updating the Config Options to enable the UseAccessionNumber option: