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This power point presentation describes the current standardization effort for dentistry using the DICOM standard, in particular the image exchange using Application Profiles and some of the most common use cases showing how images can be shared among dentistry practitioners and Dental PACS .

This power point shows what is IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) activity, what it is NOO, and a couple of IHE profile definitions such as Scheduled Workflow (SWF), Patient Information Reconciliation (PIR),  Consistent Presentation of Images (CPI), Presentation of Grouped Procedures (PGP), and Key Images (aka Key Object Notes or KON).

This power point presentation shows the relationship between DICOM Structured Reports (SR) and how they are mapped into HL7 CDA documents.

This article describes how PACS networks still suffer from DFT (DICOM Frequent Traps) such as the display of inverted images, database case-sensitivity, occurrence of orphan images, and lack of specificity in DICOM Conformance Statements. In addition, there are issues with regard to LUT (Look Up Table) support and locking a reading worklist for a radiologist.

The IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has defined the PDI or Portable Data for Imaging profiles which addresses the many issues that occur when exchanging images on DICOM compliant CD’s. These issues include the support of proprietary formats on CD’s,  presence of DICOMDIR and also the avoidance of the listed “frequently made mistakes”.