Welcome

to the home page of Jörg Riesmeier, freelance IT consultant and DCMTK developer from Oldenburg, Germany.

For more than twenty years, I am concerned with standards in the field of medical image communication. After my studies in computer science, I worked as a scientific assistant at the R&D institute OFFIS and thereafter as the head of the medical communication systems department at the ICSMED company. Since end of 2012, I act as a freelancer.

My services include training, consulting and software development in the field of DICOM and IHE. DICOM is the world-wide accepted standard for medical image communication, and IHE is an international initiative that uses established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to solve typical clinical use cases.

 

Overview

Training

I offer training courses in the field of DICOM and IHE, usually together with partners from Oldenburg.

Consulting

I provide consultancy regarding the interpretation and implementation of the DICOM and IHE specifications.

Development

I implement selected DICOM services and IHE integration profiles as requested by my customers.

If you are interested in my service offer or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
What is DICOM?
DICOM is the world-wide accepted standard for medical image communi­cation. The standard defines data structures and services for the vendor-independent exchange of medical images and related information. There are also definitions for waveforms, structured medical reports and other medical data / documents. Most imaging devices and many other systems in the healthcare domain implement one or more DICOM services. The standard text is freely available from the NEMA web site dicom.nema.org.
Who am I?
My name is Jörg Riesmeier and my first contact with DICOM was as a student of Computer Science in the mid 90s. Since then, I was concerned with many different topics of the standard. For example, my diploma thesis dealt with the processing and, in particular, the display of the very flexibel but also complex DICOM image format. In the context of my doctoral thesis, I studied DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) and its visualization in detail. Furthermore, for many years now, I am one of the main developers of the Open Source DICOM toolkit DCMTK.