Setup Flux Inc. Print Driver to DICOM Send into Cornertone

Summary

IDEXX is continually researching technology solutions to help aid workflow efficency and obtain a complete electronical medical record within IDEXX Cornerstone. The solution suggested in this document is a solution discovered and tested by IDEXX Laboratories however it is not a supported configuration. This solution alows users to print something to a pseudo printer that can DICOM send the printed material directly into the patient's medical record within IDEXX Cornerstone. This is extremely handy by printing ECG graphs and other reports stored outside of Cornerstone directly into the patient's medical record without even having to open Cornerstone.

The DICOM Print Driver is a third party product that has no warranty of fitness. The user must assume the entire risk of uing this program. The user must always validate the quality of the produced information. This print driver was never designed to be used for diagnosis purposes. The print driver installs in "Demo Mode" which reflects on all output until the driver is registered with Flux inc.

The following document explains the following:

-Prerequisites

-Install of the Flux Inc. Print Driver

-Flux Inc. Print Driver Setup

-Printing and sending a document


Prerequisites

-IDEXX Cornerstone Diagnostic Imaging Module Installed

-IDEXX DICOM Services Setup and Running on the Cornerstone Server

-Flux inc. Print Driver Install File


Install of the Flux Inc. Print Driver

Download the Flux Inc. Print Driver from
http://download.cnet.com/DICOM-Printer/3000-10743_4-10637785.html?tag=mncol

to your Desktop on any computer within the Cornerstone Network.

Note: This computer does not need to have Cornerstone loaded on it.

Double-click the install file now located on your Desktop called dicomprinter1651554_setup.exe

Once the Flux Inc. Print Setup-DICOM Printer window appears, click Next

Check the box I Read and Accept License Terms

Click Next again after reading the release notes.

Click Next again to agree to the default install path

Click Next again to place an icon on your desktop (comes in handy later)

Click Install


Flux Inc. Print Driver Setup

After the install completes, the DICOM Printer - Options Window appears

Fill in your Institution Name, address and department

Set the Series UID Behaviour field to "One Series UID per document"

Set the Image Bit Depth to "RGB"

Set the Image Compression to "JPEG-4 Lossy" and the JPEG Quality to "High (Q = 0.8)"

Enter the following information in the dark gray area:
-Device Name: Cornerstone
-Client Name: (automatically fills in)
-Default Search type: Study (Patient ID)
-Result header format: Name, Modality, Accession
-All Server Address fields: IP address of the Cornerstone Server (usually 192.168.0.2)
-All Port fields: 104
-All Client AE Title fields: IDEXX-DICOM (or whatever you call your Cornerstone DICOM Server - usually IDEXX-DICOM)
-All Modality fields: "SC" then click the close button.

Printing and Sending a Document

Now that it is all set up, it's time to print a document. Simply print the same way you would print any other document.

Select the DICOMPrinter printer in the printer drop down list and click OK

The document prints, double click on the "DICOM Printer" icon located on your desktop.

This is the holding place for all your DICOMPrinter documents. (This is nice when you want to mass send a bunch of documents)

Select a document on the left

Enter in the Patient ID from Cornerstone in the Patient ID field (you can also type in a series description and alter the capture date)

Click Send to PACS

After about 30 seconds or so, the document should show up in the Cornerstone patient medical record.