| No matter what field you are thinking of, it makes | | | | possible when all medical personnel involved in a |
| sense that you need the right tools in order to | | | | patient's care each utilize a dicom viewer. |
| get the job done efficiently. If you are a dancer, | | | | The use of digital imaging and a dicom viewer |
| you need tap shoes. A carpenter needs the right | | | | leads to a much improved turnaround time on |
| hammer and saw to complete the job. So, too, | | | | patient diagnoses, which also improves patient |
| does a medical office need the appropriate | | | | care. Documents can also be read on a dicom |
| equipment to function at full capacity. One of the | | | | reader. This speeds up retrieval times, because |
| best pieces of hardware you can add to your | | | | you can bring up both patient digital images as well |
| office is a DICOM web viewer. | | | | as records on your DICOM web viewer. By using |
| This is used in conjunction with pacs software, or | | | | a dicom reader, you also have immediate access |
| as part of a ris/pacs system, and the dicom | | | | to important information including the date the |
| viewer allows you to see, send and receive digital | | | | images were taken and where, along with patient |
| medical images on your screen, as well as archive | | | | identification, thus reducing the chances of mixing |
| them. Having a fleet of dicom viewers throughout | | | | up patient records tremendously. A great deal of |
| your medical facility will help to improve workflow | | | | time and expense can also be saved when you |
| tremendously. | | | | use a dicom viewer and pacs software for digital |
| One of the best aspects of using a DICOM web | | | | image archiving. In order to meet HIPPA |
| viewer is how it provides the immediate nature of | | | | standards, patient medical images must be stored |
| the Internet at your fingertips. The dicom reader | | | | for seven to ten years. With hard copy images, |
| allows you to see medical digital images, which can | | | | this means a lot of money spent on storage |
| include multi-slice CT images, ultrasounds, | | | | space and personnel for filing, retrieval and |
| mammograms, MRIs, x-rays, dental images, | | | | maintenance of those files. Now, you can archive |
| veterinary images and others, from any Dicom | | | | thousands of patient images in a server that will |
| modality instantly when you retrieve them from | | | | take up less space than your desk, and retrieve |
| your digital archive, or receive them over a | | | | any image you want immediately to view on your |
| secure online transmission line. There is no more | | | | DICOM web viewer. Offsite archiving is also much |
| waiting for patient images to be mailed or | | | | easier and less costly to accomplish when using |
| delivered to your office, because that turnaround | | | | pacs software with a dicom reader. For all of |
| time has been eliminated through the use of | | | | these reasons, your office will experience a more |
| dicom viewers and digital imaging. Consultation and | | | | effective workflow when you utilize the power of |
| collaboration in real time are much more easily | | | | a DICOM web viewer. |