The Portable Data for Imaging (PDI) Integration Profile is part of the IHE Radiology Technical Framework.

This profile specifies actors and transactions that provide for the interchange of imaging-related information on interchange media. The intent of this profile is to provide reliable interchange of image data and diagnostic reports for import, display or print by a receiving actor.

This profile addresses identification of the media content’s source and the patient (where appropriate), reconciliation of data during import, and the structure of the media contents.

The central elements of the profile are: 

• Reliable interchange of imaging-related information based on the DICOM standard
• A Web Content Option that provides guidelines for including web-viewable content on media.

The Web Content Option addresses the case of media containing both DICOM-encoded objects and objects in XHTML or JPEG derived from these DICOM-encoded objects.

This profile was defined to address the incompatibilities that exist among several PACS vendors when recording and reading DICOM CDs.

This content adapted from the IHE Radilogogy Technical Framework rev 8.