Web-Based Dicom Sharing

                                                                                         

It's become so common that we almost don't think about it anymore. If you need to contact someone quickly, you will most likely reach for your computer keyboard and send out a speedy email message. This is also a much faster way to communicate with a group of people, rather than sitting around making individual telephone calls to everyone in the group. The same ease of using the Internet applies to web-based Dicom sharing, or teleradiology. In a nutshell, teleradiology allows you to use an image sending station to send your medical digital images over a transmission network to your recipient, who will receive the images and look at them using a dicom viewer, also known as a dicom reader. There are many advantages to using a DICOM web viewer over traditional film imaging systems.

Reduction In Operating Costs For Your Medical Office

By using dicom viewers throughout your medical facility, you will experience a drop in your budget needs for film. No film is needed with dicom viewers reading digital images; nor are costly and toxic chemicals used for developing digital images, unlike film. If you have a case where a specialist needs to be called in or a second opinion given, this can mean additional transportation and accommodation costs, but if you are using a DICOM web viewer you can send those patient images immediately to the specialist where they will be read on his or her dicom viewer, saving both time and money. With film images, you also have the problems and costs associated with storage and maintenance, not to mention retrieval of certain images housed with likely several thousand others. These issues are a thing of the past when your facility uses dicom viewers, because you can digitally store thousands of images that can be accessed via a dicom reader by authorized medical personnel at any time of the day or night.

The Need For Speed

In the medical field, the speed with which a patient is diagnosed with a potentially deadly condition is the difference between life and death. Speed comes with making the switch to digital imaging and using a dicom viewer, and the sending and receiving of those images over secure data transmission lines happens instantly, as opposed to sending film images through the mail. If there are only a few specialists that service several medical offices, using a DICOM web viewer allows you to send patient images via the Internet to the specialist, who can use a dicom reader to make a diagnosis quickly, and get the results back to you rapidly through the dicom viewer so that patient treatment can proceed.

Improved patient care, as well as a reduction in operating costs, are possible with the use of a dicom viewer in every area of your medical facility. Improved workflow is also more reliable through the speed of retrieval and archiving of patient images when using the dicom reader.

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In this article Jonathon Blocker writes about dicom viewers.

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