iConnect Access v. 6The iConnect Access application is a portal technology platform that aggregates diagnostic data from multiple archives, th en seamlessly delivers patient information

iConnect® Access

v. 6.5

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INDICATIONS FOR USE – iConnect Access

• The iConnect Access application provides Internet access to multi-modality softcopy medical images, reports, and other patient-related information to conduct diagnostic review, planning and reporting through the interactive display and manipulation of medical data.

• The iConnect Access application can be configured to provide either lossless or lossy compressed images for display. The medical professional user must determine the appropriate level of image data compression that is suitable for their purpose.

• Display monitors used for reading medical images for diagnostic purposes must comply with applicable regulatory approvals and with quality control requirements for their use and maintenance.

• Lossy compressed mammographic images and digitized film screen images must not be reviewed for primary image interpretations. Mammographic images may only be interpreted using an FDA approved monitor that offers at least 5 MP resolution and meets other technical specifications reviewed and accepted by FDA.

• iPads and other mobile devices can present diagnostic quality images, but the iConnect Access application on such mobile devices is not intended for diagnostic use.

INDICATIONS FOR USE – iConnect Access 3D

• iConnect Access 3D is intended to provide reading physicians, referring physicians, and other appropriate healthcare professional tools to aid in interpreting medical images, including:

• Displaying DICOM compliant medical image volumes, such as CT, MRI, and PET.

• Reformatting images, including creation of MPRs, MIPS, MinIPs, color/monochrome 3D volume rendered images

• Manipulating displayed images via control of slice thickness, slice interval, obliquity, perspective, rotation, window/level, crop, zoom, color/monochrome transformations, segmentation, sculpting, straightening the display of curved structures, and creating images perpendicular to a curvilinear path.

• Creating individually captured DICOM images that can be displayed and stored in a PACS.

• Measuring coronary calcium, which is intended for non-invasive identification and quantification of calcified atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries using tomographic medical image data and clinically accepted calcium scoring algorithms.

The symbols glossary is provided electronically at http://www.merge.com/Support/Resources.aspx.

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NOTE: The iConnect Access software complies with the MDD Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993.

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ICA-15681 June 2018 1.0 Initial revision for iConnect Access 6.5

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Contents

Merge Healthcare Confidential

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Chapter 1 About the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2 New Features and Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

OCT Reference Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Updated New MRN Feature in the Exam Importer and Web Uploader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Reconciliation Update and Destination Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Destination Role Based User Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Destination Based MRN Prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Invite to Upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Disable Guest User Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 3 Fixed Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter 4 Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Case-Insensitive Accession Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Image Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 5 Product Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Web Browser Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Supported Web Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Supported iConnect Access 3D Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Supported Mobile Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Archives Compatible with iConnect Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Image Sharing Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Holding Pen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

PACS Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Exam Importer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Web Uploader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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External Applications Compatible with iConnect Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Database Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

iConnect Access Virtual Machine Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Client Workstation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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Chapter 1 About the Application

The iConnect Access application is a portal technology platform that aggregates diagnostic data from multiple archives, then seamlessly delivers patient information to physicians without duplicating data or proprietary integration. Built on robust interoperability specifications, iConnect Access delivers standards-based, on-demand integration with any DICOM or XDS compliant repository irrespective of the vendor.

The zero-footprint universal viewer and image sharing tools provide clinicians and CIOs with a solution that overcomes the challenges associated with distributing images and reports to their referral base. Challenges typically include expensive hardware replacements, complex deployment, costly IT support, platform compatibility, and high bandwidth requirements.

In addition, the iConnect Access application provides the scalability vital to enterprise networks and multi-site systems. HTTPS facilitates secure transmission of images over the Internet while seamlessly integrating with any portal or EMR system. The application also provides audit logging which supports HIPAA compliance requirements for privacy and security of patient information.

iConnect Access is also available in a mobile device format for Apple iPhone devices; the Apple iPod touch, and the Apple iPad, all with extended accessibility for reports and images.

WARNING: Display monitors used for reading medical images for diagnostic purposes must comply with applicable regulatory approvals with quality control requirements for their use and maintenance.

WARNING: Not for diagnostic review when used on a mobile device.

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Chapter 2 New Features and Enhancements

This release of iConnect Access introduces the following new features and enhancements.

OCT Reference Lines

Added support for DICOM OCT Ophthalmology exam cross reference lines. In the Study Viewer, users can display the scout line and all cross sections on the reference OCT image.

Updated New MRN Feature in the Exam Importer and Web Uploader

The New MRN field is now available in both the Exam Importer and Web Uploader for all registered users. Guest users do not have access to the New MRN field. The New MRN field was previously available in the Exam Importer to both registered and guest users. The Web Uploader did not previously include the New MRN field.

Also, an global setting is now available for System Administrators to have the application prompt users if a New MRN is not entered when performing an upload. Users have the option to enter a New MRN or continue without a value.

Reconciliation Update and Destination Selection

The Reconcile/Archive Study dialog has been enhanced with a new Update feature that allows users to save the updated DICOM information stored in the holding pen without archiving it to a data source. The study state of the updated exam can be reconciled without changing the destination, and when re-routed to another destination the status changes to show that its uploaded.

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The permission for the Update feature will be enabled for archivists in addition to the archive and route functionality that exists today. A new privileged type of user called “Updater” will inherit the receiver privileges on that destination and also have the ability to save/ update, but not archive.

The Reconcile/Archive Study dialog also includes a destination selector that by default contains the sent to destination, but allows the user to change destination to another based on the domain and role segmentation for the user.

Destination Role Based User Management

The Destination management page has been enhanced to allow a new user type other than receiver or archivist that has updater privileges. Users with updater privileges can update patient demographics, order notes, and/or select a destination to reconcile exams without archiving. This updater option is included at the role level to ensure any local or active directory user who is a part of the role has access to that destination's inbound data.

Destination Based MRN Prefix

The Destination Management page has been enhanced to enable MRN prefixing and allow a configurable syntax to be used to identify the destination that studies are sent to/from. Data is then automatically prefixed by the image sharing tools and stored to the holding pen.

NOTE: Once data is stored to the holding pen, changing destinations will not prefix the MRN, even if MRN prefix is enabled.

Invite to Upload

iConnect Access allows external guest users to access the main login page and use any email address to upload exams when Image Sharing is enabled. Registered users with the privilege to invite to upload can now invite other users to upload by sending an email with a link to upload studies.

The Invite to Upload Study feature is available from the Inbounds tab or Study Viewer. Users can enter any email address and the recipients name, select a destination, and write a free text comment. Once the email is submitted, a PIN will appear, that is configurable by how many digits in length and number of days until expiration. This PIN is then communicated through some other form of communication like phone or separate email.

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Disable Guest User Login

A new global configuration setting has been added that allows system administrators to prevent guest email logins on the upload devices. When guest user login is disabled, only registered users (LDAP/ Local) are able to login to the upload devices.

NOTE: This configuration does not impact the invite to upload guests as they are confirmed guests with an access PIN.

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Chapter 3 Fixed Issues

The following table lists the issues that have been fixed in this release.

NOTE: Issue numbers can be used to request additional information from your support representative.

Issue Component Description

ICA-11038 Viewer DICOM SOP was not configured to validate SOP Class US-mf 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.3.1

ICA-11108 Audit Logging Duplicate login entries were occasionally being logged in the Audit log.

ICA-12150 XDS The Patient History Encounter column did not display values for the priors listed.

ICA-13250 Mobile On mobile devices, if more consultation notes are listed then can fit on the screen at one time, users were unable to access the notes that were not on the screen. Users can now scroll to access all the notes.

ICA-13691 Viewer On mobile devices, link icons were displayed on the thumbnail views. Link icons should only be displayed on the images.

ICA-13748 Mobile On mobile devices, when an emailed study was opened, the Study Viewer would not rotate orientation when the device was rotated.

ICA-13760 Image Sharing For new domains, the Exam Importer and PACS Gateway installer links were not displayed on the homepage if they were not generated for the SuperAdmin.

ICA-14477 Security DICOM tags could be used to include malicious Javascript in data sent to Enterprise Archive.

ICA-14506 Image Sharing, Security

The Email ID field in the Exam Importer could be used to include malicious Javascript in data sent to the iConnect Access database.

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ICA-14588 Security A URL/parameter pair was vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting which could be used to submit malicious JavaScript to iConnect Access via the URL.

ICA-14660 Viewer MPEG2 and MPEG4 video files were not playing in browsers Internet Explorer 11 and Edge.

ICA-15060 Study List Matching studies were not listed according to the Role Access Filters when filtering with multiple institutions.

ICA-15199 Study List The Study List Group By drop-down could become partially hidden. Also, studies with date “unknown” were not all grouped together.

ICA-15242 Image Sharing, Uploader Tool

Uploading studies using the Exam Importer would fail when a network fault occurred.

ICA-15262 Test Automation, Viewer

The browser could become unresponsive when linking three viewports on a study due to images not being fully cached yet.


The browser could become unresponsive after selecting Link All on a study for the first time due to images not being fully cached yet.

ICA-15292 Download Setting the Package Maximum Size to larger than 2048 MB in the Service Tool would cause study transfers to fail.

ICA-15302 Exam Importer When studies were uploaded from the Exam Importer, email notifications were not received for deleted studies.

ICA-15324 HTML5 Uploader When using the HTML5 Web Uploader in Internet Explorer 11, a popup message displayed “Did not find any supported files to upload, please select another folder.” if the user clicked “Drag and Drop Your Files Here For New Upload” more than once.

ICA-15325 PACS Gateway An error message may display after logging out from the PACS Gateway.

ICA-15337 Image Sharing Studies could contain unused private tags when uploaded to the Holding Pen.

ICA-15351 Reports PDF files with special characters in the file name would not load in the Study Viewer

ICA-15358 HTML5 Uploader When using the HTML5 Web Uploader, attachment uploads canceled by the user during upload could still continue to upload.

ICA-15372 HTML5 Uploader When using the HTML5 Web Uploader, if an email address or phone number is entered in an incorrect format, an error message is displayed when the user clicks Login. Users had to click Login again to dismiss the error message, and then again to continue to login.


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ICA-15376 Email Study For studies emailed from the Inbounds tab, the History panel could not retrieve data and displayed an error message.


Studies with DX modality could display as washed out.

ICA-15397 Image Sharing High availability jobs would intermittently log errors.

ICA-15403 Image Sharing When searching studies from the Inbounds/Outbounds tabs, search strings entered in the First Name field produced search results that contained the string in either the First Name or Last Name fields.

ICA-15471 Mobile When rotating an iPAD to landscape orientation, the splash screen on the login page did not resize to fit on the screen correctly.

ICA-15472 Mobile The connection quality rating on the login page was not visible on the iPad mini.

ICA-15474 Mobile When viewing studies on an iPAD, images could be dragged from the thumbnails giving the impression users could drag and drop from the thumbnails.

ICA-15479 Image Sharing The Email ID field in the Exam Importer allowed users to enter an invalid email address format.

ICA-15489 Image Sharing The HTML5 Uploader configuration settings in the Service Tool did not include field labels to display the unit types.

ICA-15499 Mobile When viewing studies on an iPad in full screen mode, the link icon would display on the thumbnails.

ICA-15500 Mobile When viewing studies on an iPAD, users were unable to perform zoom and pan functions when the Scrolling tool was selected.

ICA-15501 Mobile When viewing studies on an iPAD, a viewport can become misaligned when the Safari browser is minimized and reopened

ICA-15502 Mobile When rotating an iPAD to landscape orientation, emailed studies would not display properly correctly.

ICA-15516 Viewer When viewing reports in the Chrome browser, a left click on the mouse would cause the mouse to get stuck to the scrollbar until a right click was performed.

ICA-15536 Email Study When deleting a study from the Outbounds tab, users could click OK multiple times which resulted in an error

ICA-15577 Email Study, Viewer

Emailed studies with a large number of priors could fail to load.

ICA-15610 Uploader Tool Encryption services were not synchronized to the WebUploader configuration.




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ICA-15611 Security iConnect Access was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

ICA-15645 Exam Importer A Call Home error would occur when logging into the Exam Importer after a system is restart and the Exam Importer auto starts in minimized mode.

ICA-15657 Viewer Secondary captures were not displaying in the Study Viewer.

ICA-15689 Viewer Studies with DX modality could display as washed out.

ICA-15700 Localization For localized applications, the warning messages on the self enrollment sign up page were not translated.

ICA-15718 Security iConnect Access was vulnerable to Inclusive Phishing Through URL Redirection.

ICA-15736 Viewer Modality LUT handling was not configured to match the DICOM standard for PR modalities.

ICA-15742 Viewer Using Stacking Mode when viewing studies with Integrated URL resulted in rendering errors.

ICA-15745 Conference Lists Users were unable to delete Conference Folder Managers when using Internet Explorer browser with High level security.

ICA-15760 Email Study, PACS Gateway

PINs generated for PACS Gateway and Email Study were stored in the database in plain text. PINs are now encrypted.

ICA-15774 Security iConnect Access had a security vulnerability with Query Parameters in SSL Requests.

ICA-15779 Patient History, URL Integration

When MPI and PID Domain are configured, some studies displayed an error when opened from the History panel, but opened normally from the Study list.

ICA-15784 Patient History When MPI and PID Domain are configured, the History panel would display the error message “Cannot identify patient by using configured patient services”.

ICA-15805 Email Study Email Study fields were hidden when emailing an ePDF study in Internet Explorer.

ICA-15818 Exam Importer Users were unable to upload JPEG files using the Exam Importer.

ICA-15820 Patient History, URL Integration

While launching iConnect Access through a patient-level URL integration, some studies displayed an error when opened from the History panel, but opened normally from the Study list.

ICA-15822 Patient History When MPI and PID Domain are configured, the History panel would display the error message “Cannot identify patient by using configured patient services”.


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ICA-15827 Study List The primary patient ID domain was not displaying in a domain user’s IPID Search field.

ICA-15829 Viewer Some PACS would not render PR or KO modalities.

ICA-15840 XDS When using Internet Explorer 11, XDS videos could take a long time to load.

ICA-15844 All, Security When updating the Protocols and Server FQDN in the Security tab of the Service tool, some configuration files did not apply the updates.

ICA-15855 User Management

iConnect Access did not enforce adequate access controls to prevent users from changing others passwords.

ICA-15856 Security The iConnect Access session cookie did not have a Secure Flag attribute to prevent discloser over an unencrypted connection.

ICA-15859 Viewer If a PR referenced several multiframe images, frames could display in an incorrect sequence.

ICA-15901 Conference Lists In the Conference Folders tab, Active Directory users could not add subfolders to top level folders, or studies to conference folders.

ICA-15965 Viewer When using the Edge or Firefox browsers, the Study Viewer could flicker when scrolling through images.

ICA-15972 Viewer When using Windows 10, PR images were not created for studies with a large number of images.

ICA-15994 Web Uploader PDF file names could be changed when uploaded from the Web Uploader.

ICA-16048 Image Sharing POP PINs were displaying as invalid logins in the Windows Event Viewer.

ICA-16085 Image Sharing Delete notifications with the parameter “twophasedelete = false“ were being sent to the holding pen. This resulted in studies being completely removed from the holding pen instead of being placed into the deleted folder.

ICA-16125 Exam Importer, Image Sharing, PACS Gateway

Uploaded studies were duplicated if reconciled while they were still in the process of uploading.

ICA-16134 Viewer When using XDS for PDQ, SAD as PIX, an exception occurred when no patient was returned from PDQ while loading a study.

ICA-16195 XDS The DocumentSourceType list was not passed to the server for XDS document retrieval.




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The Create/Edit Roles pages did not include the Inbounds and Outbounds tabs as options for Default Start Page.

ICA-16312 Image Sharing Some patient data could not be retrieved when reconciling a study for the first time.

ICA-16317 PACS Gateway The POP Priority Queue was set to LIFO instead of FIFO.

ICA-16334 Image Sharing When Enterprise Archive received images with invalid character sets, it issued an association abort which resulted in those studies remaining in Upload Scheduled.

ICA-16341 PACS Gateway After the first reboot since installing the PACS Gateway, an error would occur when opening the PACS Gateway.

ICA-16344 Image Sharing Studies with a large number of images were not being removed from the Inbounds/Outbounds tabs when deleted.

ICA-16373 URL Integration Users were could not download plug-ins when using an integrator link.

ICA-16426 Study Search Control

If an “&“ was used in a Study List search string, and a study opened from the listed results, the study would throw exception when the Study Viewer was closed.


If a role name contained special characters, the roles list did not display any roles.

ICA-16649 HTML5 Uploader If a study was uploaded using the Web Uploader, then deleted from the Inbounds tab, then uploaded again before the cache is invalidated, the second upload fails and is identified as a duplicate study.

ICA-16660 PACS Gateway Duplicate studies uploaded using the PACS Gateway would get stuck in the PACS forwarding queue.


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Chapter 4 Known Issues

Case-Insensitive Accession Number

Grant Access is case-insensitive. As a result, if Accession Numbers are not handled consistently regarding letter case and have similar accession numbers, studies may not be visible in the user’s Inbound Study List.

Image Sharing

The PACS Gateway, Exam Importer, and Web Uploader may not be able to upload studies that contain multi-byte character sets like Unicode.

The following table lists other issues that have been identified but not fixed in this release.

NOTE: The current list of Known Issues for this product release is a subset of the complete list of Known Issues at the time of publication, representing the issues that are material and/or will affect a significant number of clients. In addition, this specific Known Issues list may not include issues that have been identified and/or addressed in previous version maintenance releases for this product. Please contact Customer Support if you would like additional information regarding Known Issues or if you would like to request a more complete listing.

NOTE: Issue numbers can be used to request additional information from your account representative.

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ICA-7737 Web Uploader The Institution field is missing from the Web Uploader. As a result, users cannot determine configured institutions.

ICA-13144 Image Sharing The user is unable to upload studies through the Java Uploader. This issue is caused by old MC3 JAR files on the client side Java cache after upgrading.

Workaround: After upgrading, clear the Java cache.

ICA-14089 Viewer In the Study Viewer, some review tools do not behave correctly when using an iPAD with iOS 10 or later, When releasing your touch from the screen during an operation such as pan, zoom, or window/level, the image resets back to the initial state and does not apply the change.

ICA-15516 Viewer When viewing reports of type DICOM SR or HL7, the mouse cursor may get locked on the scroll bar and/or its up/down arrows when clicked. To unlock the mouse cursor from the scrollbar, right-click or move the mouse scroll wheel.

ICA-16764 Image Sharing, PACS Gateway

When PACS Gateway sends very large DICOM data to Enterprise Archive (EA), EA will occasionally produce a C-store failure. By default, iConnect Access expects that C-Store status to be returned from EA in five seconds. However, with very large DICOM data, EA could take longer to process, resulting in a timeout for iConnect Access to get the status returned.

To increase the timeout parameter so iConnect Access can accept very large DICOM data, update the file WebAccess\Config\ MC3StorageSCUConfiguration.xml to change the “associationTimeout” value to “600000”, which is equal to 600 seconds or 10 minutes.

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ICA-16778 Image Sharing, LDAP

LDAP users are not getting study upload notifications when a study is uploaded using the HTML5 Web Uploader.

Workaround:

Scenario # 1 — “User Management Mode“ is set to both “Ldap Directory Service“ and “Local Database“.

1. Open file “C:\WebAccess\WebUploader\Config\ServiceFactoryConfiguration.xml”

2. Find text “Python.User” and update the value for Class attribute to “Python.Core.User.Services.MixedUserProcess“:

<add key=“Python.User“ assembly=“Python.Platform.Core.dll“ class=“Python.Core.User.Services.MixedUserProcess“></add>

3. Find text “User.Affiliation” and update the value for Class attribute to “Python.Core.User.Services.MixedUserAffiliationProcess“:

<add key=“User.Affiliation“ assembly=“Python.Platform.Core.dll“ class=“Python.Core.User.Services.MixedUserAffiliationProcess“></add>

Scenario # 2 — “User Management Mode“ is changed from mixed mode (both “Ldap Directory Service” and “Local Database”) to “Ldap Directory Service” only or “Local Database” only.

1. Open file “C:\WebAccess\WebUploader\Config\ServiceFactoryConfiguration.xml”

2. Find text “Python.User” and update the value for Class attribute to “Python.Core.User.Services.UserProcess“:

<add key=“Python.User“ assembly=“Python.Platform.Core.dll“ class=“Python.Core.User.Services.UserProcess“></add>

3. Find text “User.Affiliation” and update the value for Class attribute to “Python.Core.User.Services.UserAffiliationProcess“:

<add key=“User.Affiliation“ assembly=“Python.Platform.Core.dll“ class=“Python.Core.User.Services.UserAffiliationProcess“></add>


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Chapter 5 Product Requirements

This chapter describes the following product requirements for the iConnect Access application:

• "Web Browser Requirements" on page 20

• "Supported Mobile Devices" on page 20

• "Archives Compatible with iConnect Access" on page 21

• "Image Sharing Requirements" on page 21

• "External Applications Compatible with iConnect Access" on page 23

• "Database Requirements" on page 23

• "iConnect Access Virtual Machine Requirements" on page 24

• "Client Workstation Requirements" on page 25

NOTE: For information on server minimum requirements for existing hardware and recommended requirements for new purchases of hardware for the iConnect Access server, contact Customer Support.

NOTE: To ensure the appropriate safeguards for HIPAA compliance for password controls 164.308(a)(5)(ii)(D), dashboards must be configured to use LDAP.

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Web Browser Requirements

Supported Web Browsers

The following Web browsers are supported for devices using the HTML4 Study Viewer.

• Google Chrome 45 or later

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11

• Microsoft Edge 38.14393

• Mozilla Firefox 50 or later

• Apple Safari 8 or later for Macintosh

Supported iConnect Access 3D Browsers

iConnect Access 3D supports the following Web browsers:

• Google Chrome 58 or later

• Internet Explorer 11

• Microsoft Edge 40.15063 or later

• Mozilla Firefox 52 or later

• Apple Safari 10 or later

Supported Mobile Devices

iConnect Access has been validated on the following mobile devices:

• Apple iPhone 6x and 6 Plus, or 7 running on iOS 9.x or 10.x

• Apple iPad Mini+, iPad2+, iPad Air+, iPad Pro 9.7-inch/ 12.9in running on iOS 9.x or 10.x

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Archives Compatible with iConnect Access

iConnect Access supports the following archives:

• Merge PACS 6.6.x, 7.1.2 and 7.2

• Unity PACS 11.2.x

• RadSuite 5.30.x, 5.35.x, and 8.30.x

• iConnect Enterprise Archive 9.4.X, 10.X, and 11.x

iConnect Access has been shown in the field to be compatible with many third party archives. For more information, contact your Merge Healthcare representative.

Image Sharing Requirements

Holding Pen

When iConnect Access is configured for Image Sharing, it requires a Holding Pen. The Holding Pen can consist of iConnect Enterprise Archive 11.2, 11.3, or 11.4 on supported hardware, or a customer-supplied VMware VM or Hyper-V environment.

For information on requirements, refer to the Merge Healthcare VMware Virtualization Customer Guide (CVM-3) or the Merge Healthcare Hyper-V Customer Guide (CVM-141).

PACS Gateway

For the PACS Gateway, iConnect Access has been validated on the following operating systems with the latest service pack and all available editions:

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows 7

• Windows 10



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Exam Importer

For the Exam Importer, iConnect Access has been validated on the following operating systems with the latest service pack and all available editions:

• Windows 7

• Windows 8

• Windows 8.1

• Windows 10

Web Uploader

The following table lists the supported Web browsers for the Web Uploader and the available features for each:

Web Uploader Feature

Internet Explorer 11

Edge Mozilla 50+ Chrome 13+ Safari

File Selection

Y Y Y Y Y

Multi File Selection

Y Y Y Y Y

Folder Selection

N Y Y Y N

Files Drag and Drop

Y Y Y Y Y

Folder Drag and Drop

N Y Y Y N

Web socket Y (only 6 socket

connection) Y Y Y Y



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External Applications Compatible with iConnect Access

The iConnect Access External Applications feature can be configured to launch the following:

• Merge/Amicas PACS Halo Embedded Viewer

• Merge/Emageon Specialist Viewer (AV-Lite)

• Merge Cardio Web/VERICIS Web

• Merge OrthoCase

• iConnect Network

Information on integrating iConnect Access with external applications may be found in the iConnect Access Installation Guide and the iConnect Access Integration Guide.

Database Requirements

New installations will use SQL 2012 or 2014.

Upgrades will be supported on SQL 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014.

NOTE: SQL Server Express is installed by default. Supported versions 2008 R2/2012/2014 have a 10 GB database size limit. To keep the IRWSDB under the maximum size limit, a configurable audit purging job should be run regularly.

Regular job backups are recommended for disaster recovery as well for the HIPAA audit logs. If the audit log retention policy requires centralized querying (more than 3–6 months of audit trails) then a standard SQL license is required for the hosting SQL instance.



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iConnect Access Virtual Machine Requirements

The following table describes virtual machine settings and minimum required resources. Depending on workloads and complexity of configuration, additional resources may be required if the system is underperforming.

NOTE: iConnect Access has been validated on a VM environment using VMware vSphere 5.x. and Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2. Because iConnect Access is used in patient care, it is important to avoid over-committing the resources allocated to the application.

For more information on Hyper-V requirements, refer to the Merge Healthcare Hyper-V Customer Guide (CVM-141).

Other:

● The SAN volume should have RAID configuration equivalent to the hardware specification.

● 15K RPM drives for all applications and storage may be replaced by 10K RPM drives upon review by Merge.

15K (RAID

10)

7.2K

(RAID 6)

Access OS/DBApp/

Backup

Role Comments OS Sockets

Cores per

Socket

Total

Cores/

vCPUs

RAM

(GB)NIC Disk 0 Disk 1

Total

Storage

(GB)

Production100 Concurrent

Users

Windows Server 2012 R2


Enterprise

2 12 24 64 1 150 900 1,050


Users


Windows Server 2008 R22 6 12 32 1 150 600 750


Users


Windows Server 2008 R22 6 12 16 1 150 450 600

Production WebWindows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2008 R21 6 6 16 1 300 n/a 300

Test Access TestWindows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 1 8 8 16 1 300 n/a 300



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Client Workstation Requirements

NOTE: The table below lists the suggested hardware configuration for a typical iConnect Access client workstation.

Component Minimum Requirement Recommended Configuration

Processor Pentium IV 2.0 GHz Core 2 dual-core

Memory 1 GB RAM 4 GB RAM

Hard drive 40 GB 40 GB

Video Card 32-bit color mode support

Monitor A monitor that supports a resolution of 1024x768.

4:3 monitor that supports a resolution of 1600x1200 or a 16:9 monitor that supports a resolution of 1920x1080.

Network Interface Card

10/100/1000 BaseT 100/1000 BaseT

Web browser Internet Explorer 9 or Edge, Firefox 10, Safari 5.1, or Chrome 20.

Note: Ensure you install the latest security updates for your browsers.

Internet Explorer 9 (or later) or Edge, the most recent versions of Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.

Note: Ensure you install the latest security updates for your browsers.

Documents

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