Patient ID

[diegog]

Hi,
The patient ID in our installation must be a number like this 989620323

But sometimes Pacsone is displaying patient ID+modality AE for example: 905068003[ct99-0306102933]

Some pacs systems perform this kind of changes to highlight "unspecified" studies or studies that arrive withour accession number.

Someone know what is the meaning of this change in the ID?

Thanks

Diego

[pacsone]

But sometimes Pacsone is displaying patient ID+modality AE for example: 905068003[ct99-0306102933]

This means there's a Duplicate Patient ID issue from this study received from the "ct99" Source AE, where the study has the same Patient ID of an existing patient record, but the Patient Name from the newly received study is different from those of the existing patient record. So PacsOne flagged that Duplicate Patient ID by appending the $SourceAE-$Timestamp suffix to the conflicting Patient ID, where $SourceAE is the Source AE Title from which that study was received, and $Timestamp is the time stamp when that study was recevied.

You should resolve such Duplicate Patient ID issues by clicking on the Tools->Resolve Duplicate Patient ID menu, by selecting the correct Patient Name for the conflicting Patient ID, or if they are truly different patients you can assign a new Patient ID for the newly received study.

Keep in mind the above tool is merely fixing the symptom of the problem but not the source, as the ideal fix for such Duplicate Patient ID issues is to deploy a centralized RIS/HIS system where ALL Patient IDs for the entire organization can be uniquely assigned. Without this centralized/single source, you are bound to run into such Duplicate Patient ID issues sooner or later.