Health, Dicom Viewers Customized To Fit Your Imaging Needs


by JONATHAN BLOCKER - Date: 2008-08-27 - Word Count: 446 Share This!

Imaging centers, chiropractic and orthopedic offices, along with small clinics in the past have been at a disadvantage when it comes to procuring PACS, or Picture Archiving and Communications Systems. For a full PACS system, the cost is often out of the reach of smaller hospitals and medical facilities. With the advent of Dicom, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine, the scenario has changed dramatically. Now smaller medical offices can afford to acquire, archive, view and distribute digital medical images by using DICOM Solutions. Small systems are available that combine archive software, a DICOM web viewer, RIS patient scheduling, the DICOM router and software that allows for DICOM images to be transfered to CDs, all residing on its own server.

Many small clinics would benefit from using ris pacs. Radiology information systems allow you to schedule patient appointments, register patients, track patients throughout their visit at your office, and produce reports for the patients and doctors. For mammography clinics, ris pacs also offers a mammography tracking feature that is easy to use, and easily available to staff who must have access to patient data, because the patient information and images are available online.

When converting your office to a computed radiology, or cr system, or when expanding your current cr system, the dicom viewer is a key component of the system. A dicom viewer is software that lives in a personal computer and on a server that lets you see your patient's medical images no matter if the modality changes. Mammographies, CTs, MRIs, ultrasounds, x-rays, dental, veterinary and other digital images can now be translated into a digital image that can be seen by using a dicom viewer.

The advantages of using a DICOM web viewer are many. Doctors can consult with each other, even if they are thousands of miles apart, with the capability of seeing medical images online. The positive effect for the patient in terms of diagnosis and treatment are obvious. Because of the interconnectedness that is possible online, medical students will also benefit tremendously by having access to these amazing teaching tools.

The dicom viewers can also be customized for specific functions. You can use the viewer as part of a workstation that is geared toward mammography, or PET/CT viewing, or for volumetric viewing.

DICOM Solutions are the perfect answer for meeting HIPAA requirements concerning retention of patient records for seven to ten years, because you can comply in a fraction of the space hardcopy images and records would take up. With costs coming in at only one-third of what a large hospital PACS system would cost, now smaller medical offices can afford the ease and accessibility offered by digital imaging.


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