As a small size dental office we are using RIS services from several major providers in the city also we use internal retro-alveolar RX device.
At this time I am not sure what RIS are in use at the service providers but I want to make a plan then go out to negotiate a tighter integration with our PACS archive.
I do not understand much about HL7 protocol but I assume that if the provider has an HL7 v2.3.1 or newer interface I we would be able to integrate and automatically receive studies on our archive on one hand and also send worklist messages to the providers on other hand?
What are best practices in the field? In my country we are perhaps a decade behind with this technology... hence the reason for my questions.
HL7 usage case advise
Most RIS applications support communicating the HL7 messages via the Lower-Level Transport Protocol (LLTP), and if your RIS provider is compatible with v2.3.1 of the public HL7 standards, you should be able to send the patient order HL7 messages (e.g., ORM) to the HL7 interface of PacsOne Server, where they will be automatically converted to the Dicom Modality Worklist (DMWL) records, and then the input modalities can query PacsOne Server for its scheduled patients/studies off the DMWL records.