With today's modern PACS, there is still a need for routing.   The PACSware^® DICOM Router provides basic Source Metadata Routing (SMR™ / "store and forward routing").  PACSware^® Intelligent Router provides this most basic routing capability along with the most advanced set of routing functions in a single software package.   Intelligent Router provides an SMR™ algorithm plus the ability to route based on a third party modality worklist (Modality Worklist Routing - MWR™);  plus the ability to route based on query of a DICOM image store (Query/Move Routing - QMR™).  The PACSware^® Intelligent Router is extremely configurable and can be used in custom routing projects. 

Applications:

• DICOM routing from a web-based PACS (ie., Fuji Synapse)
• inter-enterprise routing
• nighthawk service routing
• specialty third party workstation pre-fetch (ie., pre-fetch for use by a third party mammography workstation)
• DICOM metadata mapping (inter-vendor DICOM translation) while routing

Features:

• routing based on DICOM metadata in the image/study to be routed (including but not limited to, modality, body part, priority, requesting physician and referring physician)

• routing based on time of day and/or study time

• pre-fetch routing based on a DICOM modality worklist

• time-based DICOM queries to identify studies to be routed

• routes studies to multiple destinations based on configurable routing rules

• splits mammography studies into series based on laterality and view (for improved viewing station hanging protocols)

• able to route studies to any DICOM storage provider

• optionally supports DICOM conformant lossless compression

• optionally supports DICOM conformant lossy JPEG/DCT compression

• optionally supports Pegasus wavelet compression

• (optional) compression configurable on a route by route basis and depends on modality and body part