| Every medical office has dozens of routine tasks | | | | the image could be made, so if the image was |
| that are repeated throughout the work day. | | | | not a good one, it meant having to bring the |
| These include those having to do with digital | | | | patient back in for more x-rays. Now with digital |
| medical image capturing, viewing, distributing and | | | | imaging, many enhancements to the dicom |
| archiving of the digital images. The chiropractic | | | | images can be handled directly from a personal |
| office is no exception, but with a chiropractic | | | | computer, resulting in better patient care. |
| digital x-ray system in place that utilizes the latest | | | | If your workstations are online you can send and |
| chiropractic PACS features, many of the | | | | receive dicom images in a matter of seconds, |
| repetitive tasks can be handled by the digital | | | | rather than wait for images to arrive via postal |
| equipment, making your work day more efficient | | | | mail. Storage of film images meant having actual |
| and saving you time. | | | | rooms of storage space, as well as personnel, to |
| In terms of chiropractic x-rays, physicians may | | | | handle labeling and filing of the medical images, but |
| select from chiropractic CR or chiropractic DR | | | | with today's modern digital imaging systems you |
| imaging systems. CR systems can be scaled to | | | | can save dicom images directly to CD or DVD, or |
| fit any size medical facility, including chiropractic | | | | even route them to an off-site server for |
| offices. It is the most cost-efficient system for | | | | long-term storage as well as safety in the event |
| obtaining digital medical images in the dicom | | | | of a disaster. |
| medical imaging format. DR systems cost a bit | | | | A chiropractic PACS system can aid you in your |
| more, but they also offer a higher resolution | | | | workday by handling many routine tasks for |
| quality. Both imaging systems can be used in | | | | you. You can set the software system to |
| mobile units as well. When these units are | | | | pre-fetch certain patient dicom records, and the |
| compared to all the work involved with taking film | | | | system can also automatically store and save the |
| images, it is quickly apparent that the time | | | | dicom images as well. To fully optimize your |
| savings are tremendous with digital medical | | | | system, you can add a RIS component to the |
| imaging. | | | | PACS, so that documents such as reports and |
| Once the medical images are captured in dicom | | | | billing can be saved and worked with in the dicom |
| format, they can be sent from the imaging | | | | format. Digital imaging systems such as these |
| equipment to your pacs appliance. With the | | | | will eliminate the need for repetitive jobs that |
| pacs, you can view, send, receive and archive the | | | | occur at a busy chiropractic office and help your |
| dicom images. With a film image, no changes to | | | | day run more smoothly. |