The measurements are already in the study.
They should already be in the report.
Modern imaging equipment emits every measurement it takes as structured data. Most of it never reaches the radiologist's report, because there is no path from the scanner to the reporting field. PrismLink is that path.
The problem
An ultrasound machine measuring a kidney records the length, width, height and volume as discrete, coded, machine-readable values in a DICOM Structured Report. By the time a radiologist writes the report, those numbers have usually been read off a screen and dictated back in by hand — or simply left out.
That re-entry is slow, and it is where transcription errors are introduced. The data was exact when the sonographer captured it. Everything after that point only degrades it.
What PrismLink does
PrismLink receives structured output from imaging devices, maps each measurement to the correct field on the correct report template, applies the site's own units and formatting, and delivers it into the reporting system as discrete report data — before the radiologist opens the study.
Receive
DICOM Structured Reports and HL7 ORU results, received directly from modalities and information systems on the hospital network.
Map
Each vendor encodes the same measurement differently. PrismLink resolves those encodings against a curated clinical field ontology, per exam and per device.
Transform
Unit conversion, rounding and site formatting, plus calculated values such as percentiles from published reference tables.
Deliver
Values arrive in the reporting system as discrete custom fields, populated and ready, with a durable record of what was sent and when.
Built to be checked
Clinical software that quietly produces a wrong number is worse than software that produces none. Two design commitments follow from that.
- No model runs in the delivery path. Mapping decisions are made during configuration, reviewed by a person, and then executed deterministically. The same study produces the same output every time, and that output can be replayed and audited.
- A blank field is an acceptable outcome. Where the evidence is ambiguous, PrismLink declines to fill the field rather than guessing. An empty box is visible to the radiologist; a plausible wrong value is not.
PrismLink is deployed on-premise, inside the hospital network, alongside the imaging and reporting systems it connects. See Capabilities for the deployment and data-handling model.