Day 1 - Wednesday 22 February, 2023
Opening Session
Opening Remarks & Introduction
Session One (6:00 pm - 07:40 pm)
PACS Imaging design, XDS, and lessons learned
- Composition and required skill sets of EI team
- Reconciliation, synchronization and data quality
- Multiple PACS considerations and issues
- Data segmentation and segregation considerations
- Queue management processing rules
- Naming conventions
- Disaster recovery and failover
- Storage of report data
- Patient ID management (PIX / PDQ)
Break and Quiz (15 minutes)
Session Two (07:55 pm - 09:35 pm)
SQL Database fundamentals and PACS DB Practical Exercise
- Similarities and differences between spreadsheets and databases
- Relational database design
- Database query syntax
- Select/From/Where
- Count/Distinct/Join
- Select vs Update vs Delete
- Exercise and execution of SQL queries against a PACS database
Day 2 - Thursday 23 February, 2023
Session One (6:00 pm - 07:40 pm)
Architecture Considerations and Data Migration strategies
- PACS first or VNA first
- Local, regional or national level VNA
- Integration with EMR, other applications
- XDS, XDS-I integration
- Data migrations to VNA, from VNA and data sharing between systems
- Data cleansing (images – reports)
- Normalization of DICOM data and tag management
- Private tags, non-standard data and support of SOP Classes
- Migration planning and execution
Break and Quiz (15 minutes)
Session Two (07:55 pm - 09:35 pm)
Client-side vs Server-side rendering , EMR Integration & Encounters Based Imaging
- Pros and cons of zero footprint viewers
- Who are the users of zero footprint and what are the requirements
- Image workflow and impacts
- URL integration methods and populating EMR
- Dermatology, pathology, surgery, Emergency
- Encounters based workflow considerations and tools
- Use cases and integration points
- Pros and cons of DICOM encapsulation