From a standardization perspective there are three main areas to consider to satisfy the Foreign Exam Management use cases cover three main areas requiring standardization:
- Document and Image Sharing
- Report Format
- Anatomic Region Code
The next section lists Listed below are the available standards to be considered for each standardization category, highlighting the chosen alternative being highlighted.
Document and Image Sharing
Foreign Exam Management will be implemented by an organization participating a jurisdictions’ shared Diagnostic Imaging Repository (DI-R) system. The DI-R will provide for registration and long term storage of sets of images and reports and standards based services that will be leveraged and, possibly, upgraded to support the FEM use case(s).
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