Ming-Feng Li MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Tsung-Lung Yang MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Wei-Juhn Chen, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Huay-Ben Pan MD, Abstract Co-Author: Support, Hologic, Inc

Jerry Chih-Hong Tsai MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Huey-Shyan Lin, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Laboratory examinations and imaging studies are essential for clinical decisions logically. Nowadays PACS is getting prevalent in modern medical institutes to provide physicians and medical staff easy ways for efficient images retrieval and utilization. Radiologists, facing more workload challenges than ever, should make imaging diagnosis in a effective and accurate approach. Coupling laboratory information system (LIS) with PACS can achieve this goal. The purpose of our study is to demonstrate the merits of jQuery-based LIS coupled with PACS.

Coupling jQuery-based LIS with PACS can aid radiologists to do routine work more efficiently by easily gathering all the necessary information on web pages simultaneously and user-friendly. Our experience might be helpful for other medical institutes wishing for web-based medical information integration.

With this new integration of jQuery-based LIS with PACS, radiologists could easily browse all the necessary information on web pages simultaneously including images, reports and laboratory results without hustling to other applications or reading on paper-based charts to fulfill the goals of paperlessness and medical error reduction. The jQuery-based functional display can assist radiologists interpretate laboratory data in a more user-friendly and efficient way with a chronological timeline. The success of our study consolidates the concepts of IHE to be able to integrate different legacy systems on a common platform for unified and standard data communication.

Our LIS was converted from traditional database records into standard DICOM structured report objects, under the guidance of IHE framework, as well as the web page results rendering using retrieve information for display profile. Flot, a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery, is chosen to be our functional display for LIS due to multi-platforms support and relative easiness in implementation.The functional display provides the followings: (Figure)1) Two or more data serials can be shown on the diagram2) Data is presented with clear time plot by month or year3) An interactive scrolling timeline function for shifting the diagram chronologically

Li, M, Yang, T, Chen, W, Pan, H, Tsai, J, Lin, H, Enabling jQuery-based Retrieval and Display of Laboratory Information System into Filmless Web-based PACS.  Radiological Society of North America 2012 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 25 - November 30, 2012 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2012/12028148.html