Dicomize Excel

[jacintor]

Hi,

We have a client that will send us electronic and conventional xrays. The electronic part is fine and will be sent via gateway. They conventional films are a problem. Since we would like to capture the whole volume via Onepacs for payment purposes our idea is to have the client send us a list of patients in Excel or CSV so we can dicomize that list somehow and upload it to Onepacs instead of opening new registries manually for each patient.

Do you know any solution or programs that would allow us to dicomize a list so we can upload it to onepacs?

Thanks,

Rodrigo

[john (from OnePacs)]

Rodrigo,

If I understand correctly you are asking if there is a program that will create DICOM objects (sample images or null/placeholder instances/images) from a list of data including the patient identifiers. IE, feed in an excel spreadsheet consisting of: Patient name, MRN, dob, study date, and receive as output a directory full of sample DICOM instances for each of those cases that could be uploaded to OnePacs to create a record in OnePacs for each of those patient/study combinations.

I am not familiar with any software that could do that. It seems like the kind of thing a developer could implement a solution for manually if you have someone who could do that, for example using software such as xml2dcm

https://dcm4che.atlassian.net/wiki/display/d2/xml2dcm

To clarify, the conventional films are being sent in actual physical conventional format? If they were being digitized this of course would solve that problem also.

John

[jacintor]

Hi John,

Exactly. I will interpret the physical X-rays, they will not be digitalized.

I will try the software you just mentioned.

Thank you,

Rodrigo

[jacintor]

Hi All,

Just to document that xml2dcm worked!

Thanks,

Rodrigo