Design and implementation of information exchange between HIS and PACS based on HL7 standard

This paper mainly does some research on the problem of information exchange between HIS and PACS, which is starving for solution in the construction of hospital digitalization. HIS system mainly deals with patient information, it follows the standard of HL7.While PACS system mainly manages image information, it follows the standard of DICOM 3.0. Because HIS and PACS deal with different information and follow different standards, it is difficult to directly communicate. This paper presents a method of establishing HL7/DICOM gateway to realize the information exchange of HIS and PACS. The HL7/DICOM gateway designed in this paper is made up of three modules. First, HL7 messages and triggered events are designed to achieve the function of transaction processing module. According to the designed HL7 messages, four message interface functions are defined to accomplish the function of send/receive messages module. Finally, the algorithm of construct/parse messages is given to complete the function of construct/parse messages module. Result shows that HIS and PACS realize information exchange successfully by using the HL7/ DICOM gateway designed in this paper.