Throughout the Radiology Departments at both hospitals there is a bandwidth of 100 Mbps available. The various Radiology switches are connected to the core switches at the computer centres via a gigabit line.

Import interface for patient and case data

Patient data, case data and relevant change data are sent by HOSPIS to the existing e*Gate communication server in its standard format. There the data is converted to the HL7 format and sent to the Centricity ® RIS.

Export interface for service and accounting
data (XML file in the ALIS format)

In a similar way to the existing interface between CONRAD+ and HOSPIS the accounting data is sent via XML files in the ALIS format from the Centricity ® RIS to HOSPIS.

Export interface for reports
(DOC or RTF format)

Reports are exported in the DOC or RTF format from the Centricity ® RIS to a defined directory on an existing file server, where they can be downloaded by the above-mentioned hospital system.

During integration of the existing modalities the following DICOM functionalities were implemented:

• DICOM Modality Worklist
• DICOM Store
• DICOM Query/Retrieve
• DICOM Print
• DICOM Send