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author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon, 09 May 2016 09:39:38 +0200 |
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Does Orthanc support worklists? =============================== Orthanc supports DICOM Modality Worklists (MWL) through its `plugin SDK <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/tree/master/Plugins>`__. In other words, Orthanc can act as a worklist server (C-Find SCP), but an user-defined plugin must be provided to answer a list of worklists given a MWL query. The rationale for using plugins instead of providing a built-in MWL mechanism, is that the way worklists are generated is very specific to the clinical flows and to the manufacturer of your `RIS system <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiology_information_system>`__. Indeed, depending on the situation, worklists can be generated either from HL7 messages, from calls to a Web service (e.g. through FHIR), or from a direct access to some RIS database. It is thus up to the Orthanc user to provide the worklist generator that is best suited for her use. A `sample plugin <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/src/default/Plugins/Samples/ModalityWorklists/>`__ is available to serve the worklists stored in some folder on the filesystem. This mimics the behavior of the ``wlmscpfs`` command-line tool from the `DCMTK software <http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/wlmscpfs.html>`__. ``dump2dcm`` might be a very `useful companion tool <http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dump2dcm.html>`__ to feed the sample plugin with worklists for some separate maintenance script. For more complex or integrated workflows where you must implement a custom MWL plugin, please check the `documentation of the part of the Orthanc plugin SDK <https://orthanc.chu.ulg.ac.be/sdk/group__Worklists.html>`__ that is related to the management of worklists.