Update (7/26/2011): Added more proposed updates after feedback from partners.
The HealthVault Medical Image Study data type enables our customers to store medical image studies in HealthVault.
Over last few months, we got feedback from partners and are proposing updates to the type to enable ingestion of larger set of medical image series’, and extend the type to make is more useful for consumer and enterprise usage.
Following are the proposed changes:
medical-image-study-series
Name
Type
IsRequired
Description
acquisition-datetime
d:date-time
No
The date and time that the image was acquired. DICOM tag: (0008,0022), (0008,0032)
Fig 1. Proposed change in medical-image-study-series
With the above change we will version the type, applications using the older version of this type will receive a sentinel value for all the data which does not have acquisition-datetime.
In accordance with DICOM we are moving the referring-physician element from medical-image-study-series to medical-image-study.
medical-image-study
referring-physician
t:person
The physician who ordered the study. DICOM tag (0008,0090)
With the above change we will version the type, applications using the older version of this type will get the referring-physician in medical-image-study-series populated by the referring-physician in medical-image-study. Application using the newer version of this type will get the value of referring physician in the first medical-image-study-series in the medical-image-study field.
We are adding an optional accession-number in the medical-image-study type. Having an accession-number will aid applications to match consumer image data with pre-existing imaging study results in their system.
accession-number
t:stringnznw
The Radiology information service (RIS) generated number that identifies the order for the study. DICOM tag (0008,0050)
If you have feedback on the above changes or suggestions for other improvements to this type, please respond with comments or e-mail hvtype at microsoft.com.