Hi
I have been researching on some free PACS system for our EHR. I stumbled on to this wonderful Conquest Server for Windows. We are still evaluating on the best PACS system that fits our requirement. I will quickly phrase my requirement and then follow it up with my query, if you can answer:
The requirement is that our CPOE module (C#.Net) will generate and export an HL7 file for to DICOM Server. DICOM server should add all the studies from the HL7 file. Once the DICOM server is updated with the results for those new tests/studies, our Import service (C#.Net) will then query DICOM Server to get all the updated studies and generate a HL7 file for auditing purposes. Finally, our EHR user will see a link to the study result in EHR webpage. If user clicks that link, it should open the study in a DICOM Viewer. I guess that is pretty much common in every EHR.
My questions are:
1. What API should we call to process the HL7 file? Is there a way, to bulk load all the HL7 files located in some folder into Conquest DICOM Server using the API and C#.Net?
2. How can we extract the studies that were updated with results into an HL7 file. Are there any API to generate the HL7 files or we should just write our own API to query and generate the HL7? If, so what API to use in C#.Net?
3. Finally, how should we link to the results so that the viewer shows it up? Can we use Conquest DICOM Viewer to open from any page using javascript?
Appreciate your help in advance.