DICOM Service features and future plans

Question

Hello, I'm very interested in getting started using DICOM services in the Azure health and data services for a project. I just have a few questions that I have not seen answered in the documentation. I have built out a small proof of concept app as well, and could not figure out any of this functionality. Just curious if there is already an existing way to accomplish these tasks or if there is any intention on implementing them. Any help or insights are appreciated!

1. Is there anyways to search by other DICOM tags than just studies, series, or single instances? For example would you be able to search the by something like patient name.
2. Is there a way to get all studies that I am holding in my DICOM service?
3. From the Health Data Services workspace Azure research I noticed that under the events tab there is an option to kickoff an Azure function. There is no option to kick off an event type for DICOM services I'm using C# and the two recommended nuget packages from the documentation dicomweb-standard-apis-c-sharp

Answer 1

@Brendan Murphy Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

1. You can add extended query tags other than tags specified in conformance statement. Patient Name is already supported Searchable attribute.
2. You can search all studies with searchable attributes supported in conformance statement like PatientID.
3. If you are referring to Events in Azure Health Data Services workspace (refer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/events/events-deploy-portal), DICOM services is not supported as endpoints and the same has been listed in FAQ(s). Refer Event Grid docs as well.

I would recommend you submit feedback via https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/caab15ac-311a-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d97ea directly to our product team and also, others who are looking for similar features can upvote it too.

Note: DICOM is managed service based on DICOMweb Standard APIs like Store (STOW-RS), Search (QIDO-RS), Retrieve (WADO-RS) (Delete, Change Feed are only non-standard API(s) supported)

Please correct me if I misunderstood your questions.