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Improved Does Orthanc support worklists?
author Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com>
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1 Does Orthanc support worklists?
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4 Orthanc supports DICOM Modality Worklists (MWL) through its `plugin
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6 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/tree/master/Plugins>`__.
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7 In other words, Orthanc can act as a worklist server (C-Find SCP), but
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8 an user-defined plugin must be provided to answer a list of worklists
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9 given a MWL query.
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11 The rationale for using plugins instead of providing a built-in MWL
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12 mechanism, is that the way worklists are generated is very specific to
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13 the clinical flows and to the manufacturer of your `RIS system
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14 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiology_information_system>`__.
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15 Indeed, depending on the situation, worklists can be generated either
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16 from HL7 messages, from calls to a Web service (e.g. through FHIR), or
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17 from a direct access to some RIS database. It is thus up to the
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18 Orthanc user to provide the worklist generator that is best suited for
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19 her use.
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21 A `sample plugin
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22 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/src/default/Plugins/Samples/ModalityWorklists/>`__
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23 is available to serve the worklists stored in some folder on the
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24 filesystem. This mimics the behavior of the ``wlmscpfs`` command-line
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25 tool from the `DCMTK software
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26 <http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/wlmscpfs.html>`__. ``dump2dcm`` might
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27 be a very `useful companion tool
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28 <http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dump2dcm.html>`__ to feed the sample
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29 plugin with worklists for some separate maintenance script.
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31 For more complex or integrated workflows where you must implement a
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32 custom MWL plugin, please check the `documentation of the part of the
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33 Orthanc plugin SDK
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34 <https://orthanc.chu.ulg.ac.be/sdk/group__Worklists.html>`__ that is
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35 related to the management of worklists.