DEVELOPING A RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PACS) FOR MANIPULATING TEXT, IMAGE AND VIDEO OF ULTRASOUND DATA, BASED ON HL7 AND DICOM STANDARDS

Purpose: To teach radiologists how to use PACS, connecting different US machines. To show teaching possibilities on a US focused video conferencing package in real-time working conditions. To present an example of effectively utilizing different US machines and different secretarial facilities. Methods and Materials: The standards published in the context of the Intergrading the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative (DICOM, HL7 etc) have greatly helped to have a well defined framework for the formation of a network based client-server system that integrates all the stages of an US examination. Using these stand…