sween$ composite -gravity SouthEast devarb-watermark.png 0015.DCM output.png

Here are the resources from the PlugFest in case we ran out:




Mirth Install on Windows




Mirth Install on Mac OSX




SIIM – PlugFest CD 2008




WebReach Mirth Appliances Handout




Mirth-JavaScript Reference




Mirth-SIIM News Winter 2008

Have you ever seen an Optimus 3 Keyboard?. Cool toy, fairly inexpensive, and can be hacked to work in about any environment… even Radiology. The idea here is to give some control outside of the diagnostic workstation, and offer a “press of the button” type service in the event of issue… and it was entirely possible due to the OSS Driver, OM3 Controller…




What was I able to do with it?




I was able to manipulate the buttons, change the status, fire on the events when buttons were “pressed” or “pushed” and even able to integrate it with a webservice for some cool interactions and notification …




In particularly, page a person, launch a 3rd party viewer, and also launch into a web workflow with the touch of a button. Cool eh?

Screencast includes some functionality to talk to other applications with input from another (OsiriX 2 IChat).




Much Ado for 8 lines of code eh?

Osirix RubyOSA API




Osirix Ruby OSA Screencast




Example Script

This is not super amazing. It was however fun, and thanks to this cool little app from Hiroaki I was able to control OsiriX with a wii remote. You can skip through a series, either up or down, zoom, step forward or backward through a stack and stop/browse with the trigger button. Im pretty sure if I would have spent more than an hour hacking it I could have dug for more functionality, (I do know however the nunchuck had no effect). At any rate below is a cheap video to show the functionality.




PDF Cheatsheet




In Action Video!

So here is the story, with a not-so-agile ending, but effective solution. Our EKG system is robust enough to send out various
formats of the resulting EKG embedded in an HL7 segment. Depending on your dip switches, this can be TIFF, postscript, and more notably, PDF.
This is all good, because the customer wants them into the EMR, which supports multiple ways to do this, however getting the pdf out of the
message is the kung fu integration staff may sometimes have to deal with.

Now this is cool. It is flat out well done, easy to deploy, and utilizes all the lightweight image viewing .js stunts that I had tried to showcase in WADO on RAILS.




I test drove 0.5, I hear 0.6 is around the bend. I don’t think its in the same zip code as Xero, but extremely well done from the folks over at SKS Hospital, India & Raster Images, India.

Download PACS WebView 0.5

More Screenshots from the Developer

Rogue Research

Welp, RSNA lasted 2.5 days for me… aside for having limited time and $6 dollar bottles of water, here is a rundown of my points of interest:

Max Warnock, a 5th level Triple Store Cleric, gave me an example benefit of the Semantic Web by showing me the inside skinny on an up and coming gem for Rails ( ActiveSesame ?).




Mirth now supports DICOM in version 1.7. Chris Lang and Damien Evans locked horns and the ‘chay DICOM enabled the coolest OSS Order Filler in the business.




XERO looking snappy.




McKesson had a very cool Pixel Touch interface for PACS.




Globus could change everything, and the likeness of the below command is in this blogs near future…

tgcp bigfile.dat sween.host.com:/home/users/sween

One thing I was particularly hyped up about in the up and coming OsiriX was the XML-RPC capabilities to remote control the app. This opened the door for all kinds of integration with RIS and Teaching File Systems and hours of fun annoying your buddy while reviewing cases!




At any rate, I have written an application that takes advantage of the XML-RPC functionality in OsiriX 3.0. The Code is written in C#, and I have made the VS Project available below.

Screencast of Tool in Action




Download App and Source

Remember This? I lost it. I don’t remember deleting it, I think I just plain couldn’t locate it anywhere… odd, but nonetheless since I had a few folks wanting to take a peak at how it was done, I re-wrote it, and here it is.

Things I added: lightbox2 and suckerfish lightbox… I was messing with the js anyway, and threw it into the rebuild. Pretty cool how lightbox2 groups images now, it allows you to walk through the stack! The suckerfish hack is quite cool too, but not as useful in a viewing type app as it would be in more like a teaching file viewer for key images.




For true Ruby on Railists, the use of find_by_sql would probably get me voted off the island, but for those of you that speak sql at dinner parties (Paul!) you will be right at home.




Its hosted up at Google Code (now)




QUICK, SHOTTY SCREENCAST HERE -2MB

ClubPACS

Driven by complete laziness, I used IKVM to hook up some C# foo with existing java libraries for HL7. The solution was very easy, but the requirement was Winforms and C# it had to be (for me). It would only have been a matter of converting LineReader2.java to C# to get a pure implementation of Mike Litherlands LightHL7Lib java library, but the project is in the books now, and here is my post regardless.

I didn’t get much into the IntegrateLib over at NULE.ORG (though IKVM brought it over flawlessly), but I did manage to get basic message parsing going with the same coolness as its native JAVA existence. I guess consider the JAVA version from the Hall of Justice and consider the C# version Bizarro from the Legion of Doom.

By Request, here is the link to the presentation and screencasts I gave at SIIM Section 12
this year… through SIIM.




This presentation outlines the use of Rails, Mirth, JPCAP, mturoute.exe, pstools, and other utilities.

Download @ SIIM