Patent ID: 8850028

Claim:
A method for monitoring the transmission of medical data in an image communication network based on the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard, comprising: connecting technical modalities, adapted to record the medical data, and data processing units to one other via the communication network as network subscribers; transmitting a message including data from a first network subscriber, the first network subscriber being a first technical modality, the first technical modality being a first recording unit for medical image data, to at least a second network subscriber, the second network subscriber being a second technical modality, the second technical modality being a second recording unit for medical image data; receiving, at the first network subscriber, the message including the medical image data from at least the second network subscriber; and checking, by the first network subscriber, the medical image data from at least the second network subscriber for compatibility based on a comparison between the medical image data transmitted from the first network subscriber to at least the second network subscriber, the medical image data being checked for compatibility based on a self test and the medical image data received by the first network subscriber from at least the second network subscriber, the compatibility check including checking the medical image data from at least the second network subscriber for the presence of at least one pattern representative of the medical image data transmitted from the first network subscriber, wherein a comparison is used to generate another message, classified with regard to the compatibility check, and wherein, in a second level of the another message, an extended service message is generated for one or more data links between two or more network subscribers.