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author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:41:14 +0200 |
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.. _improving-interface: Orthanc Explorer is not user-friendly enough for my use ======================================================= Orthanc is designed as a lightweight service for medical imaging, where the word *service* must be understood in the sense of `service-oriented architectures <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture>`__. As a consequence, Orthanc is conceived as a robust back-end server (command-line) that aims to provide the most simple and generic support of DICOM. To state it differently, **the primary focus of the Orthanc project is not on the user interface**. However, Orthanc comes out-of-the-box with :ref:`Orthanc Explorer <orthanc-explorer>`, its default Web user interface. **Orthanc Explorer is designed for administrative, low-level purpose.** It is also used by the development team to test the features of Orthanc as they get introduced in the REST API. Orthanc Explorer is mainly targeted towards a technical audience (notably system/network engineers, `PACS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system>`__ managers, medical physicists, and researchers). **Non-technical audience** (physicists, patients, administrative staff...) **might expect an user interface that is more user-friendly than Orthanc Explorer**, and/or that integrates more features (such as sorting resources, access control lists, tagging images, beautiful layout, tunable anonymization, modification of instances, paging if many patients, handling of timeouts...). If you need such a more advanced `user experience <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience>`__ so that Orthanc better fits your clinical workflow, you will have to develop a separate, custom Web interface on the top of the :ref:`rest`, maybe as a `plugin <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/tree/master/Plugins>`__. Any front-end Web developer could take care of this task using well-known JavaScript frameworks (such as Meteor, AngularJS, Ember.js...). It is possible that an official plugin that provides a more advanced user interface will be developed in the future (provided we find funding for this development). In the meantime, you can also contact a company that provides **commercial support on the top of Orthanc** and that might have developed an advanced user interface. Currently, `Osimis <http://osimis.io/>`_ is the only company ensuring such corporate services, but others might show up in the future. A `contact form <http://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`_ is available on the official Web page of Orthanc.