Change patient ID is shallow, not deep

hansaplast · Post by **hansaplast** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:27 pm

When we import a patient form another hospital and enter the data in our own PACS we need to modify the patient ID (and the accession number). This works quite simply. However, when the patient is then exported to another DICOM peer it is stored under the original Patient ID! It appears that the modification is in the database only, not in the DICOM header. Is there a way to make the modification a real one and not just shallow?

Regards,
Erik Kouwenhoven
Den Haag, The Netherlands

Post by **pacsone** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:13 pm

1. What's the version of PacsOne Server are you running?

2. Can you describe exactly how did you modify the Patient ID?

hansaplast · Post by **hansaplast** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:42 pm

1. Version PacsOne Server: 6.3.4

2. In the screen listing the patients: click on Patient ID
- The screen mentioning "There are xxx accessible studies for Patient: John Doe" Click on the underlined name
- A screen appears listing Origid; Lastname; Firstname etc etc. Click on the ID under Origid
- A screen appears "Modify Patient ID for Patient: John Doe"
Modify the ID and press Modify

Post by **pacsone** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:05 pm

This is the correct way to modify the Patient ID of an existing patient record.

What will happen after you click on the <Modify> button is that PacsOne will schedule a job to modify the Dicom header of all the raw Dicom images that belong to this patient. So can you click on the Job Status link from the Main Menu bar and check the status of that Resolve job for modifying the Patient ID and see if it's Successful or Failed?

hansaplast · Post by **hansaplast** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:07 am

Thank you so much, I think we made some kind of human error... anyhow the modification of patient ID works fine.