Integrating DICOM format in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi,

Does anyone know how DICOM file can be integrated into SAP, the idea is to attach the file to a service order and store the file on Content manager using Kpro. Also to be able to view the attachmant from the service order using web ui.

Any insights would be much appreciated.

Thanks

regards,

Kinika

[Former Member]

Hi Kinika,

the medical system i.s.h.med offers a [radiology module|http://www.ishmed.de/en/html/solutions-radiology.html] which works a bit different from your proposed idea using more of the usual radiology infrastructure, most notably a PACS:

in answer to a service request (clinical order), which is transmitted to various modalities (devices) by means of DICOM worklist queries, i.s.h.med receives study information by means of an MPPS message and/or a SCN message from the PACS where the DICOM artifacts have been stored to by the modality. this study information is stored with reference to the original order, the patient in question, the case in question, the findings in question. when someone wants to inspect those DICOM artifiacts (e.g. images) i.s.h.med uses standard DICOM messages to make the PACS transfer the images to a workstation and finally let a full-fledged DICOM viewer present the artifacts requested.

to achieve the processes described, the i.s.hmed radiology module is able to keep the required references, and communicates with the radiology infrastructure (PACS, modalities, workstations, viewers, ...) with a tailor-made middleware called [TransactionBroker|http://www.tiani-spirit.com], translating to and from DICOM using webservices for the communication between the middleware and the ABAP backend.

hope this helps you a bit. kind regards,

anton

[Former Member]

Hi,

My solution would have involved integrating using middleware,allow viewing of the dicom via sap crm web ui bu installing a dicom viewer at os level since browser look to the os for the application to open the file, alos to extend the mime object SDOKMIM_C with application/dicom.

Any thoughts would be appreciated,

Kinika

[former_member305573]

Hi

Before answering your question i want to know that What is ur web UI ?

If it is Web dynpro Java than it easy to view the image .

But If you are trying to get the DICOM image with the help of middleware . Than you can work on Anton's suggestion.

I would like to share my experience. We are fetching the DICOM images , Which is stored in PACS through dynpro Application . In java dynpro we are just passing the URL of the particular data which is stored in PACS database. The file is stored .dcm File exten. The .dcm file is nothing but DICOM images.

With the help of PI we are sending the order, which is converted into HL7 messages to the PACS . Now once activity has been performed the image get stored into PACS. The image will be in DICOM format. For that particular image.Now passing the url from dynpro we can fetch the image as well the attachment also.

Because i have not work on CRM . so i am not able to understnad 100% of ur requirement. But i have tried to share my knowledge ,so if it is not worth than please ignore it.

Prashant Krishen

[Former Member]

Thanks for your response which was very helpful. We are using the WebUI 2006s, in the solution the attachment of documents is possible, the challenge we were having was how to import DICOM documents from an external system into CRM and attach it to a service order we accomplished this using web services, the last issue which was viewing the dicom documents from with SAP CRM crm ended being the easiest part, we installed a viewer at OS level and associated the DCM file type.

Thanks for you input it was most appreciated.