Buying handheld ultrasound? Test the DICOM workflow before acceptance

Ask which DICOM services the offer includes

DICOM defines separate services for verifying communication, querying a worklist, sending images and obtaining a storage commitment. A successful verification check establishes communication for that check. To establish that your workflow works, test each service you depend on.

Philips’s Lumify R5.0 conformance statement lists Modality Worklist, ultrasound still-image storage, multi-frame storage and Storage Commitment as services the app can initiate. The statement covers R5.0. Ask for the document that matches the release and platform on your quote.

Follow one synthetic exam from order to archive

Use a test destination and a synthetic order approved by your imaging IT team. Agree on the identifiers and expected objects before the demo.

• Worklist: Query for the scheduled test order, select it and verify that the expected test identifiers carry into the exam.
• Storage: Send one still and one loop. Open both in the receiving picture archiving and communication system (PACS), confirm that they sit under the intended test order, and play the loop.
• Storage commitment: If your workflow requires it, ask the receiving team to verify the commitment result for those test objects. Record the image-transfer result and the commitment result separately.

Put the acceptance criteria in the quote

Write down which services the seller is providing, any options needed for the quoted configuration, who configures each endpoint, and who signs off on the results. Capture the app release, test date, object types and any open failures. That record gives both teams a way to repeat the check at delivery.