A Clinical Report Management System Based upon the DICOM Structured Report Standard

Nowadays, several health institutions already use clinical report systems. However the majority of these systems do not comply with any standard for codification, storage and transference of medical data, thus making difficult the interchange of data between different health institutions. This paper describes the development of a user-friendly report editor that produces documents compliant to the DICOM Structured Report -DICOM SR- standard. The strategy chosen to develop the editor was to combine a documentation template editor with a report instance editor that allows the use of previously built templates to ease the process of creating reports. The developed template editor helps the user though building report structures by indicating which information items are needed in order to document a particular type of examination and suggesting values for the information items. The report instance editor represents reports in an easily understandable graphical visualization, and allows th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CBMS
• Authors: Mariana Kessler Bortoluzzi, Aldo von Wangenheim, Kerstin Maximini
• Keywords: CBMS 2003, Medical Imaging, Report, Report Editor, Report Instance Editor