CHILI Newsletter No. 2/2008
CHILI is Awarded a DRG Certificate for Patient CDs
Radiological images are increasingly exchanged in digital form using storage media, so-called "patient CDs/DVDs". This approach is desirable in principle since it allows for a lossless exchange of medical images in diagnostic original quality and, if need be, for an import into the digital infrastructure (PACS, diagnostic workstations) of the receiving institution.
Further information at OFFIS
However, in practice it has shown that the exchange of radiological images and accompanying information on storage media still has many problems that are increasingly reported to the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) and the German Radiological Society (Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, DRG). In addition to ambiguity in the work processes at the receiving institution (e. g. registration of the patient in the RIS, import into a temporary archive, reconciliation of patient and order IDs before image import into a local PACS), erroneous and non standard conformant storage media are a significant hurdle for a seamless exchange of storage media. Due to the multitude of vendors and medical institutions involved the German Society of Radiology (DRG) and OFFIS have developed a Requirements Specification for patient CDs specifying the internal structure of media containing radiological images. In order to assure vendors as well as physicians of working with reliable patient CDs the German Society of Radiology (DRG) issues a certificate to those systems that provide patient CDs conform to the DRG Requirements Specification after completing a technical test. CHILI is one of the first systems that passed the test successfully and is awarded the Certificate :
Certificate of the German Radiology Society (DRG)
Thus, CHILI users can feel confident about their patient CDs being not only conform to the international standards (DICOM, IHE), but also complying with the German requirements of the Radiology Society (DRG). Further information: The Media Exchange Certification Project of the DRG.
