AGFA HE/001132 Revision Record, Purpose and Intended Audience of this Document, General Remarks

HE/001132	Page 7 of 92
	Document No.001132, Revision 2.0
Agfa HealthCare	NodeID Livelink : 14140190
	14 June, 2007

1INTRODUCTION

1.1Revision Record

	Revision		Date	Reason for Change
	Number
1.0		20/12/2006		Initial version NX2.0
2.0		21/03/2007		Updated for NX2.0.xxx

1.2Purpose and Intended Audience of this Document

This document is a DICOM Conformance Statement for the DICOM Services of the "Workstation" product. It is written according to part PS 3.2 of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) 3.0, NEMA PS 3.1-3.16,2004.

The user of this document is involved with system integration and/or software design. We assume that the reader is familiar with the terminology and concepts that are used in the DICOM 3.0 standard and the IHE Technical Framework.

Readers not familiar with DICOM 3.0 terminology should first read the appropriate parts of the DICOM standard itself, prior to reading this conformance statement.

Although the use of this conformance statement in conjunction with the DICOM 3.0 standard is intended to facilitate communication with Agfa ADC imaging equipment, it is not sufficient to guarantee, by itself, the inter-operation of the connection.

1.3General Remarks

1.3.1Integration and Validation Activities

The integration of any device into a system of interconnected devices goes beyond the scope of the DICOM

3.0standard and this conformance statement when interoperability is desired. The responsibility for analyzing the applications requirements and developing a solution that integrates the Agfa equipment with other vendors’ systems is the user’s responsibility and should not be underestimated.

In some circumstances it might be necessary to perform a validation to make sure that functional interoperability between the Agfa equipment and non-Agfa devices works as expected. The user should ensure that any non-Agfa provider accepts responsibility for any validation required for their connection with the Agfa equipment.

1.3.2Future Evolution

As the DICOM 3.0 standard evolves to meet the user’s growing requirements and to incorporate new features and technologies, Agfa will follow the evolution of the standard. This evolution of the standard may require changes to devices that have implemented DICOM 3.0. The user should ensure that any non-Agfa provider, who connects with Agfa devices, also plans for future evolution of the DICOM standard. A refusal to do so may result in the loss of functionality and/or connectivity between the different products.