The MAR-SCP AE will never initiate Associations; it only accepts Association Requests from external DICOM AEs. The MAR-SCP AE will accept Associations for Verification (C-ECHO) and Substance Administration Logging (N-ACTION) requests.

The DICOM standard Application Context Name for DICOM is always accepted and proposed:

The MAR-SCP AE can support multiple simultaneous Associations. Each time the MAR-SCP AE receives an Association, a child process will be spawned to process the Verification or Substance Administration Logging request. The maximum number of child processes, and thus the maximum number of simultaneous Associations that can be processed, is set by configuration. The default maximum number is 10 in total.

The MAR-SCP AE does not support asynchronous communication (multiple outstanding transactions over a single Association). All Association requests must be completed and acknowledged before a new operation can be initiated.

The implementation information for this Application Entity is:

Note that all EXAMPLE-MEDICATION-SYSTEM-GATEWAY AEs use the same Implementation Class UID and Implementation Version Name. This Version Name is updated with each new release of the product software, as the different AE versions are never released independently.