American Date Format in PACS for UK market

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Hi All,

Anyone recently been affected with an American Date format when viewing studies in PACS?

The issue is caused by the latest Visual Studio C++ Redistributable 14.40 that is being deployed by Microsoft and is causing some PACS Viewers to convert the standard date format of dd/mm/yyyy into a US format of mm/dd/yyyy.

This poses a significant clinical risk when viewing/reporting and comparing historic imaging. There is also the risk that Clinicians reviewing studies in clinic could read wrong date and provide a wrong clinical outcome that may affect patient care/treatment.

Visual C++ redistributables version 14.38 is the previous version and does not cause the issues seen in the latest update.

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Good spot Farouk, it would be interesting to see if this affects all vendors or if some don’t use that package in their PACS viewers.

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We have previously had reports of this with Insignia
Does anyone have any mitigations?

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Hi Alex, it was our PACS Vendor who alerted us with this issue as we have Insignia PACS!

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Hi Mark, The mitigation is to rollback the of Visual C++ redistributables to v14.38 or upgrade the viewers to Insight 9.4.5

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Hi Mark,

We also have Insignia and are/were affected by this issue.

Advice, in the interim to an upgrade, was to apply a specific DLL patch to the PCs.

We have rolled this out and that fix works.

We will be scheduling the relevant PACS upgrade.

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That is what we’re currently doing (patching DLL’s) and scheduling the InSight 9.5 upgrade.