Radiology (Sandbox)
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Radiology (Sandbox)
0.0.1-current - ci-build
Requirement Specification
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"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: ExampleScenario FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated</b></p><a name=\"FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated\"> </a><a name=\"hcFindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated\"> </a><a name=\"FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated-en-US\"> </a><p><b>url</b>: <a href=\"ExampleScenario-FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated.html\">FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated</a></p><p><b>version</b>: 0.0.1-current</p><p><b>name</b>: FindingImagingReportsStudiesAndImagesFederated</p><p><b>status</b>: Draft</p><p><b>date</b>: 2024-10-24 15:09:54+0000</p><p><b>publisher</b>: NHS England</p><p><b>contact</b>: <a href=\"https://www.ihe.net/ihe_domains/it_infrastructure/\">https://www.ihe.net/ihe_domains/it_infrastructure/</a>, <a href=\"mailto:iti@ihe.net\">iti@ihe.net</a>, NHS England: <a href=\"mailto:iti@ihe.net\">iti@ihe.net</a></p><p><b>jurisdiction</b>: <span title=\"Codes:{http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm 001}\">Global (Whole world)</span></p><blockquote><p><b>actor</b></p><p><b>actorId</b>: user</p><p><b>type</b>: System</p><p><b>name</b>: Document Consumer</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>The <a href=\"ActorDefinition-DocumentConsumer.html\">Document Consumer</a> Actor queries for documents meeting certain criteria, and may retrieve selected documents.</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>actor</b></p><p><b>actorId</b>: xds</p><p><b>type</b>: System</p><p><b>name</b>: Document Registry</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>The <a href=\"ActorDefinition-DocumentRegistry.html\">Document Registry</a> Actor maintains metadata about each registered document in a document entry. This includes a link to the Document in the Repository where it is stored. The Document Registry responds to queries from Document Consumer actors about documents meeting specific criteria.</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>actor</b></p><p><b>actorId</b>: xca</p><p><b>type</b>: System</p><p><b>name</b>: Responding Gateway</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>In NIR this is also known as <strong>Imaging Network</strong>. This is an infrastrcture service which enables federation.</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>actor</b></p><p><b>actorId</b>: docs</p><p><b>type</b>: System</p><p><b>name</b>: Document Repository</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>The <a href=\"ActorDefinition-DocumentRepository.html\">Document Repository</a> is responsible for both the persistent storage of these documents (e.g. Imaging Report)</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>actor</b></p><p><b>actorId</b>: image</p><p><b>type</b>: System</p><p><b>name</b>: Imaging Repository</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>The <a href=\"ActorDefinition-ImagingRepository.html\">Imaging Repository</a> is responsible for both the persistent storage of DICOM Images and Imaging Studies, these may also contain Imaging Reports. This is also known as a PACS.</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHESearchDocumentEntries</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Search for Document Entries - Imaging studies and reports</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>See <a href=\"CapabilityStatement-FindDocumentsMHD.html\">Finding and Retrieving Document Entries (IHE MHD)</a> for API base contract. E.g.</p>\n<pre><code>GET https://example.nhs.uk/FHIR/R4/DocumentReference?patient:identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number|9912003888&category=http://snomed.info/sct|721981007,http://snomed.info/sct|4201000179104\n</code></pre>\n<p>The equivalent in an IHE XDS environment is <a href=\"https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume2/ITI-18.html#3.18\">Registry Stored Query [ITI-18]</a></p>\n<p>Note: At present <code>category</code> and <code>type</code> which are common search parameters in IHE XDS, MHD and <a href=\"https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-ipa/index.html\">HL7 IPA</a>, are not fully defined in <a href=\"https://simplifier.net/hl7fhirukcorer4/ukcore-documentreference\">UKCore-DocumentReference</a> for widespread English NHS use, the codes used in the examples are broadly based on the elaboration of <a href=\"StructureDefinition-DocumentEntry.html\">Document Entry</a></p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHESearchResultsDocumentEntries</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Bundle</p><p><b>name</b>: Return Document Entry search results</p><blockquote><p><b>version</b></p><p><b>Extension Definition for ExampleScenario.instance.version.title for Version 5.0</b>: Search Results</p><p><b>Extension Definition for ExampleScenario.instance.version.content for Version 5.0</b>: <a href=\"Bundle-MHDSearchResultsDocuments.html\">Bundle: type = searchset; total = 1</a></p><p><b>versionId</b>: 1</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: XCAQuery</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: XCA Query</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>Example Response <a href=\"AdHocQueryRequest.xml\">AdHocQueryRequest XML</a></p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume1/ch-18.html\">IHE Cross-Community Access (XCA)</a></p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: XCAResponse</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: XCA Query Response</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>Example Response <a href=\"AdHocQueryReponse.xml\">AdHocQueryReponse XML</a></p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHEReadDiagnosticReport</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Read DiagnosticReport</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>See <a href=\"CapabilityStatement-FindAndRetrieveImagingReports.html\">Find and Retrieve Imaging Reports</a> for API overview. E.g.</p>\n<pre><code>GET https://example.nhs.uk/FHIR/R4//DiagnosticReport/ABCD\n</code></pre>\n<p>The equivalent in an IHE XDS environment is <a href=\"https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume2/ITI-43.html#3.43\">Retrieve Document Set [ITI-43]</a></p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHEViewDiagnosticReport</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: DiagnosticReport</p><p><b>name</b>: Return DiagnosticReport</p><blockquote><p><b>version</b></p><p><b>Extension Definition for ExampleScenario.instance.version.title for Version 5.0</b>: Retrieve Diagnostic Report</p><p><b>Extension Definition for ExampleScenario.instance.version.content for Version 5.0</b>: <a href=\"DiagnosticReport-DiagnosticReportImagingReportRCR.html\">Diagnostic Report for 'MRA Upper limb Rt' for '->display: string (PrimitiveType/DiagnosticReport.subject.display): element = string -> display=string[Richard SMITH]'</a></p><p><b>versionId</b>: 1</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHEReadImagingStudy</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Read ImagingStudy</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p><a href=\"https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Web-based_Image_Access\">IHE WADO Retrieve (WADO-RS)</a>. See also <a href=\"CapabilityStatement-RetrieveImagingStudy.html\">Retrieve Imaging Study</a> for API overview</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHERetrieveImagingStudy</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Return ImagingStudy</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p><a href=\"https://www.dicomstandard.org/News-dir/ftsup/docs/sups/sup59.pdf\">DICOM Key Object Selection (KOS)</a> is a manifest, which includes references to images which are used to find and retrieve the DICOM Image Instance</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHEReadImageInstance</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Read Image Instance</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p><a href=\"https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Web-based_Image_Access\">IHE WADO Retrieve (WADO-RS)</a>. See also <a href=\"CapabilityStatement-RetrieveImageInstances.html\">Retrieve Image Instances</a> for API overview</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>instance</b></p><p><b>resourceId</b>: IHERetrieveImage</p><p><b>resourceType</b>: Binary</p><p><b>name</b>: Return Image Instance</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>DICOM Image Instance</p>\n</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Query for patient image and/or report</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>IHE XCA implements an <a href=\"https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/conversation/Aggregator.html\">Aggregator</a> pattern. Each <strong>Responding Gateway</strong> is asked to same query that the <strong>Document Registry</strong> originally received, in our example this is HL7 FHIR RESTful query (this is also IHE MHD - <a href=\"https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/MHD/ITI-67.html\">Find Document References ITI-67</a>) and this has been converted to IHE XML as an <code>AdHocQueryRequest</code>. <a href=\"StructureDefinition-DocumentEntry.html\">Document Entry</a> is a FHIR DocumentReference profile based on the NHS Data Dictionary definitions contained in <a href=\"https://www.ihe-europe.net/sites/default/files/2017-11/IHE_ITI_XDS_Metadata_Guidelines_v1.0.pdf\">IHE Europe - Metadata for exchange medical documents and images</a>, this also contains mappings between IHE XDS Document Entry and IHE MHD/HL7 FHIR DocumentReference.</p>\n</div><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Search for Document Entries - Imaging studies and reports</p><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: search-type</p><p><b>name</b>: Search for Document Entires</p><p><b>initiator</b>: user</p><p><b>receiver</b>: xds</p><h3>Requests</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHESearchDocumentEntries</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: For each Network/Gateway - Search for Document Entries via IHE XCA Cross-Community Access (XCA)</p><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: search-type</p><p><b>name</b>: Search for Document Entries in other networks</p><p><b>initiator</b>: xds</p><p><b>receiver</b>: xca</p><h3>Requests</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>XCAQuery</td></tr></table><h3>Responses</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>XCAResponse</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Aggregate and Return Search Results - Imaging studies and reports</p><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: search-type</p><p><b>name</b>: Return Document Entry search results</p><p><b>initiator</b>: xds</p><p><b>receiver</b>: user</p><h3>Responses</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHESearchResultsDocumentEntries</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Option - Retrieve selected imaging report</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>This is an optional step. The <strong>Document Consumer</strong> may choose to retrieve the <strong>Imaging Report</strong>. At present this is a <a href=\"https://www.rcr.ac.uk/media/wwtp2mif/rcr-publications_radiology-reporting-networks-understanding-the-technical-options_march-2022.pdf\">Royal College of Radiologists HL7 ORU</a> converted to a FHIR DiagnosticReport profile as <a href=\"StructureDefinition-ImagingReport.html\">Imaging Report</a>, this also contains mappings between HL7 ORU and FHIR DiagnosticReport. Other options are being discussed by HL7 Europe such as a <a href=\"https://health.ec.europa.eu/document/download/0079ad26-8f8f-435b-9472-3cd8625f4220_en?filename=ehn_mi_guidelines_en.pdf\">EU Medical imaging studies and reports</a> which is likely to be a derivative of <a href=\"https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-ips/index.html\">HL7 IPS</a>, like the <a href=\"https://build.fhir.org/ig/hl7-eu/laboratory/\">HL7 Europe Laboratory Report</a>.</p>\n</div><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: read</p><p><b>name</b>: Retrieve Imaging Report</p><p><b>initiator</b>: user</p><p><b>receiver</b>: docs</p><h3>Requests</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHEReadDiagnosticReport</td></tr></table><h3>Responses</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHEViewDiagnosticReport</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Option - Retrieve selected imaging study</p><p><b>description</b>: </p><div><p>This is an optional step. The <strong>Document Consumer</strong> may choose to retrieve the Imaging Study. At present this is a <a href=\"https://dicom.nema.org/dicom/supps/sup59_lb.pdf\">DICOM KOS</a> which contains DICOM modalities to used for retrieval of the Image Instances. Other options include using FHIR ImagingStudy which is a FHIR version of the DICOM KOS.</p>\n</div><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: read</p><p><b>name</b>: Retrieve Imaging Study</p><p><b>initiator</b>: user</p><p><b>receiver</b>: image</p><h3>Requests</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHEReadImagingStudy</td></tr></table><h3>Responses</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHERetrieveImagingStudy</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>process</b></p><p><b>title</b>: Retrieve selected image - Optional</p><blockquote><p><b>step</b></p><blockquote><p><b>operation</b></p><p><b>number</b>: 1</p><p><b>type</b>: read</p><p><b>name</b>: Retrieve Image</p><p><b>initiator</b>: user</p><p><b>receiver</b>: image</p><h3>Requests</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHEReadImageInstance</td></tr></table><h3>Responses</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td style=\"display: none\">-</td><td><b>ResourceId</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"display: none\">*</td><td>IHERetrieveImage</td></tr></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>"
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"description" : "The [Document Consumer](ActorDefinition-DocumentConsumer.html) Actor queries for documents meeting certain criteria, and may retrieve selected documents."
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"name" : "Document Registry",
"description" : "The [Document Registry](ActorDefinition-DocumentRegistry.html) Actor maintains metadata about each registered document in a document entry. This includes a link to the Document in the Repository where it is stored. The Document Registry responds to queries from Document Consumer actors about documents meeting specific criteria."
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"actorId" : "xca",
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"description" : "In NIR this is also known as **Imaging Network**. This is an infrastrcture service which enables federation."
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"actorId" : "docs",
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"description" : "The [Document Repository](ActorDefinition-DocumentRepository.html) is responsible for both the persistent storage of these documents (e.g. Imaging Report)"
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"description" : " See [Finding and Retrieving Document Entries (IHE MHD)](CapabilityStatement-FindDocumentsMHD.html) for API base contract. E.g. \n```\nGET https://example.nhs.uk/FHIR/R4/DocumentReference?patient:identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number|9912003888&category=http://snomed.info/sct|721981007,http://snomed.info/sct|4201000179104\n```\n\nThe equivalent in an IHE XDS environment is [Registry Stored Query [ITI-18]](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume2/ITI-18.html#3.18)\n\nNote: At present `category` and `type` which are common search parameters in IHE XDS, MHD and [HL7 IPA](https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-ipa/index.html), are not fully defined in [UKCore-DocumentReference](https://simplifier.net/hl7fhirukcorer4/ukcore-documentreference) for widespread English NHS use, the codes used in the examples are broadly based on the elaboration of [Document Entry](StructureDefinition-DocumentEntry.html) "
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"valueString" : "Search Results"
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🔗 "reference" : "Bundle/MHDSearchResultsDocuments"
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"resourceId" : "XCAQuery",
"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "XCA Query",
"description" : " Example Response [AdHocQueryRequest XML](AdHocQueryRequest.xml) \n\n See [IHE Cross-Community Access (XCA)](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume1/ch-18.html) "
},
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"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "XCA Query Response",
"description" : " Example Response [AdHocQueryReponse XML](AdHocQueryReponse.xml) "
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{
"resourceId" : "IHEReadDiagnosticReport",
"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "Read DiagnosticReport",
"description" : " See [Find and Retrieve Imaging Reports](CapabilityStatement-FindAndRetrieveImagingReports.html) for API overview. E.g. \n```\nGET https://example.nhs.uk/FHIR/R4//DiagnosticReport/ABCD\n```\n \n\nThe equivalent in an IHE XDS environment is [Retrieve Document Set [ITI-43]](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume2/ITI-43.html#3.43) "
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"valueString" : "Retrieve Diagnostic Report"
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"resourceId" : "IHEReadImagingStudy",
"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "Read ImagingStudy",
"description" : "[IHE WADO Retrieve (WADO-RS)](https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Web-based_Image_Access). See also [Retrieve Imaging Study](CapabilityStatement-RetrieveImagingStudy.html) for API overview "
},
{
"resourceId" : "IHERetrieveImagingStudy",
"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "Return ImagingStudy",
"description" : "[DICOM Key Object Selection (KOS)](https://www.dicomstandard.org/News-dir/ftsup/docs/sups/sup59.pdf) is a manifest, which includes references to images which are used to find and retrieve the DICOM Image Instance "
},
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"resourceId" : "IHEReadImageInstance",
"resourceType" : "Binary",
"name" : "Read Image Instance",
"description" : "[IHE WADO Retrieve (WADO-RS)](https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Web-based_Image_Access). See also [Retrieve Image Instances](CapabilityStatement-RetrieveImageInstances.html) for API overview "
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"title" : "Query for patient image and/or report",
"description" : "IHE XCA implements an [Aggregator](https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/conversation/Aggregator.html) pattern. Each **Responding Gateway** is asked to same query that the **Document Registry** originally received, in our example this is HL7 FHIR RESTful query (this is also IHE MHD - [Find Document References ITI-67](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/MHD/ITI-67.html)) and this has been converted to IHE XML as an `AdHocQueryRequest`. [Document Entry](StructureDefinition-DocumentEntry.html) is a FHIR DocumentReference profile based on the NHS Data Dictionary definitions contained in [IHE Europe - Metadata for exchange medical documents and images](https://www.ihe-europe.net/sites/default/files/2017-11/IHE_ITI_XDS_Metadata_Guidelines_v1.0.pdf), this also contains mappings between IHE XDS Document Entry and IHE MHD/HL7 FHIR DocumentReference.",
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{
"title" : "For each Network/Gateway - Search for Document Entries via IHE XCA Cross-Community Access (XCA)",
"step" : [
{
"operation" : {
"number" : "1",
"type" : "search-type",
"name" : "Search for Document Entries in other networks",
"initiator" : "xds",
"receiver" : "xca",
"request" : {
"resourceId" : "XCAQuery"
},
"response" : {
"resourceId" : "XCAResponse"
}
}
}
]
}
]
},
{
"process" : [
{
"title" : "Aggregate and Return Search Results - Imaging studies and reports",
"step" : [
{
"operation" : {
"number" : "1",
"type" : "search-type",
"name" : "Return Document Entry search results",
"initiator" : "xds",
"receiver" : "user",
"response" : {
"resourceId" : "IHESearchResultsDocumentEntries"
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"title" : "Option - Retrieve selected imaging report",
"description" : "This is an optional step. The **Document Consumer** may choose to retrieve the **Imaging Report**. At present this is a [Royal College of Radiologists HL7 ORU](https://www.rcr.ac.uk/media/wwtp2mif/rcr-publications_radiology-reporting-networks-understanding-the-technical-options_march-2022.pdf) converted to a FHIR DiagnosticReport profile as [Imaging Report](StructureDefinition-ImagingReport.html), this also contains mappings between HL7 ORU and FHIR DiagnosticReport. Other options are being discussed by HL7 Europe such as a [EU Medical imaging studies and reports](https://health.ec.europa.eu/document/download/0079ad26-8f8f-435b-9472-3cd8625f4220_en?filename=ehn_mi_guidelines_en.pdf) which is likely to be a derivative of [HL7 IPS](https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-ips/index.html), like the [HL7 Europe Laboratory Report](https://build.fhir.org/ig/hl7-eu/laboratory/).",
"step" : [
{
"operation" : {
"number" : "1",
"type" : "read",
"name" : "Retrieve Imaging Report",
"initiator" : "user",
"receiver" : "docs",
"request" : {
"resourceId" : "IHEReadDiagnosticReport"
},
"response" : {
"resourceId" : "IHEViewDiagnosticReport"
}
}
}
]
},
{
"title" : "Option - Retrieve selected imaging study",
"description" : "This is an optional step. The **Document Consumer** may choose to retrieve the Imaging Study. At present this is a [DICOM KOS](https://dicom.nema.org/dicom/supps/sup59_lb.pdf) which contains DICOM modalities to used for retrieval of the Image Instances. Other options include using FHIR ImagingStudy which is a FHIR version of the DICOM KOS.",
"step" : [
{
"operation" : {
"number" : "1",
"type" : "read",
"name" : "Retrieve Imaging Study",
"initiator" : "user",
"receiver" : "image",
"request" : {
"resourceId" : "IHEReadImagingStudy"
},
"response" : {
"resourceId" : "IHERetrieveImagingStudy"
}
}
},
{
"process" : [
{
"title" : "Retrieve selected image - Optional",
"step" : [
{
"operation" : {
"number" : "1",
"type" : "read",
"name" : "Retrieve Image",
"initiator" : "user",
"receiver" : "image",
"request" : {
"resourceId" : "IHEReadImageInstance"
},
"response" : {
"resourceId" : "IHERetrieveImage"
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
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