Radiology Information System Job

The Radiology Information System job communicates to external imaging systems such as MedQ.  It checks for new requests, passed them along to the system, and opens a port for incoming status changes and reports back from the external machines. 

Job Settings

The standard job settings include the Active Flag to indicate that the service is turned on and available to start, the Auto Start flag to have it run as specified once the server starts, and the Server to Run on.  Like all API jobs, VetView strongly recommends you have a dedicated server for API jobs, to avoid impacting any users on production servers.

The Radiology job should run frequently to check for new requests.  We recommend running it at least once every five minutes, and as often as once a minute.  (Note that if a large number of requests come at the same time, the job may not have time to process them all if it's less than a minute.)

Port Settings

The port settings contain the incoming IP address of your server, and the outgoing IP address of the radiology machine that you are interfacing with.  This information is needed to correctly send HL7 messages to the machine.

Additional Settings

In addition to the Port Settings, the Radiology Information System requires a little more information to accurately format the HL7 message.

Select the Vendor of the system, the email address to use for new requests, and the facility settings associated with the applications.

If you do not know what these settings should be, contact your RIS/PACS vendor for assistance.

Radiology Information System Logs

The logs for this job allow you to filter by patient ID and also by date range.

Request Event Queue

This is the list of the requests that are currently queued in the system.  If the system is correctly processing the events, the queue should remain up to date and in sync with VetView.

Outbound Message Log

This section displays the summary of each outbound HL7 message.  Click on a row to view the HL7 code as it was sent.  The letter on the right indicates Success or Failure.

Incoming Message Log

This section contains a summary of any HL7 messages that are sent from the interface without being associated with a Request.

Message Details

This section contains the HL7 code as it was transmitted between VetView and your external RIS/PACS system.