Re: [Gnumed-devel] Free FotoFinder Replacement: MediSnap

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:24:53PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> For the scenario of radiological images (DICON etc) we had
> been taking the view that GNUmed would avoid duplicating the
> storage… GNUmed could happily store the report, and a
> reference to where the original image may be living. That
> makes sense when the image is in a repository managed by
> another arm's length group such as a hospital or community
> radiology laboratory. Even when such an arms-length (by
> which I mean "outside the praxis") repository would exist,
> it can make sense in the case of specific patients in GNUmed
> to store one or images of greatest interest within the
> GNUmed database proper. Another example would be the the
> case of a patient who brings a CD or DVD with important
> images into the praxis where there is doubt about reliable
> access to the original. Maybe here too, the clinician would
> decide to load the entire study into the GNUmed database

In such cases I would recommend loading the studies into a
local PACS archive which GNUmed references.

Karsten
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