PACS-EMR integration을 위한 Interface 설계

Abstract

In 1913, Severance hospital decided to import X-ray equipment to instigate the use of radiology examination for diagnoses. According to the development of medical imaging technologies, Severance hospital started mini-PACS in 1998 to manage medical images efficiently that could archive and display it by help of computer technologies. Nevertheless, there is a limitation to be able to fulfill the duties of digital hospital. As one of the world’s largest hospitals, the large volume size and extraordinary number of exams should to be managed by installing a full PACS system specifically designed to deal with huge capacity while supporting performance and having stability and reliability. So, full-PACS for main hospital at Sep. 2002, dental-PACS for dental hospital at Feb. 2004, and cardiac-PACS for cardiovascular hospital at Jul. 2004 were installed each at Severance hospital. Then new OCS and EMR system were launched at Nov. 2005 to meet the requirements of integrated ubiquitous hospital information system that was integrated and interfaced with existing PACS. In this report, we introduce the process of PACS data conversion by means of new OCS installation, the integration of PACS-EMR, and the strategy/preparation/problem of PACS-EMR interface that’ll be helpful to other hospitals that plan to install and integrate of EMR from now on.