| centers, chiropractic and orthopedic offices, along | | | | software that lives in a personal computer and on |
| with small clinics in the past have been at a | | | | a server that lets you see your patient's medical |
| disadvantage when it comes to procuring PACS, | | | | images no matter if the modality changes. |
| or Picture Archiving and Communications | | | | Mammographies, CTs, MRIs, ultrasounds, x-rays, |
| Systems. For a full PACS system, the cost is | | | | dental, veterinary and other digital images can |
| often out of the reach of smaller hospitals and | | | | now be translated into a digital image that can be |
| medical facilities. With the advent of Dicom, Digital | | | | seen by using a dicom viewer. |
| Imaging and Communication in Medicine, the | | | | The advantages of using a DICOM web viewer |
| scenario has changed dramatically. Now smaller | | | | are many. Doctors can consult with each other, |
| medical offices can afford to acquire, archive, | | | | even if they are thousands of miles apart, with |
| view and distribute digital medical images by using | | | | the capability of seeing medical images online. The |
| DICOM Solutions. Small systems are available that | | | | positive effect for the patient in terms of |
| combine archive software, a DICOM web viewer, | | | | diagnosis and treatment are obvious. Because of |
| RIS patient scheduling, the DICOM router and | | | | the interconnectedness that is possible online, |
| software that allows for DICOM images to be | | | | medical students will also benefit tremendously by |
| transfered to CDs, all residing on its own server. | | | | having access to these amazing teaching tools. |
| Many small clinics would benefit from using ris | | | | The dicom viewers can also be customized for |
| pacs. Radiology information systems allow you to | | | | specific functions. You can use the viewer as part |
| schedule patient appointments, register patients, | | | | of a workstation that is geared toward |
| track patients throughout their visit at your office, | | | | mammography, or PET/CT viewing, or for |
| and produce reports for the patients and doctors. | | | | volumetric viewing. |
| For mammography clinics, ris pacs also offers a | | | | DICOM Solutions are the perfect answer for |
| mammography tracking feature that is easy to | | | | meeting HIPAA requirements concerning retention |
| use, and easily available to staff who must have | | | | of patient records for seven to ten years, |
| access to patient data, because the patient | | | | because you can comply in a fraction of the |
| information and images are available online. | | | | space hardcopy images and records would take |
| When converting your office to a computed | | | | up. With costs coming in at only one-third of what |
| radiology, or cr system, or when expanding your | | | | a large hospital PACS system would cost, now |
| current cr system, the dicom viewer is a key | | | | smaller medical offices can afford the ease and |
| component of the system. A dicom viewer is | | | | accessibility offered by digital imaging. |