The DICOM MIMS is a user-friendly web application designed to increase the efficiency of the work flow of the Radiology Department of the Philippine General Hospital by automating the registration process, organizing patient record archives, providing quick queries for previous records, and utilizing the DICOM capability of their digital equipment.

The Problem

The overall work flow inside the Radiology Depar tment is done manually. Considering it handles around a thousand in-patients everyday, the queue of the different processes is quite long. Also, it is very possible to misread handwritten results, misplace files, and have redundant images and other possible errors. Despite having digital equipment capable of speaking DICOM, they currently have no system that can use its advantages. Therefore, tapping into its advantages will greatly increase efficiency in their work flow. The DICOM-MIMS addresses all of these.

The Features

The software will highlight the communication to the DICOM machines such as CT Scanners, MRIs, Ultrasounds and X-rays. Through this, acquiring images directly from the machines to be displayed in the web application will be easy, thus eliminating the need for large printouts. It will also highlight multi-access levels to accommodate the different users in PGH, which include registration officers, radiographers, radiologists, encoders and administrators.

System

All computers in the department will be connected via a network. There will be a server which will run in Linux. This server will contain the PostgreSQL database and the web application for the DICOM-MIMS developed using PHP. This server will also have the classes necessary for the communication between DICOM application entities using C++.