Webinar: PACS and Imaging Architecture: An Advanced PACS Administration course for Enterprise Systems

Course Schedule

Day 1 - Monday 28 March, 2022
Opening Session

Opening Remarks & Introduction

Session One (6:00 pm - 07:50 pm)

Enterprise 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)
Quiz (10 minutes)
Break (15 minutes)
Session Two (08:15 pm - 09:05 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
Quiz (10 minutes)
Day 2 - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
Session One (6:00 pm - 07:50 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
Quiz (10 minutes)
Break (15 minutes)
Session Two (08:15 pm - 09:05 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
Quiz (10 minutes)
Course Program
Time Topic
Day 1
17:50 to 18:00Registration & Introduction
Day 1-2
18:00 to 19:50Session One
19:50 to 20:00Session Two
20:00 to 20:15Break (15 minutes)
20:15 to 21:05Session Three
21:05 to 21:15Session Four