| iewers are very popular at orthopedic, chiropractic, | | | | seconds on dicom viewers. Errors in misfiling patient |
| veterinary, radiology, dental and podiatry offices, as | | | | images are greatly reduced through the use of digital |
| well as hospitals. A dicom viewer allows you to look at | | | | medical monitors, and thus you can provide better |
| digital images from a computer screen. Using digital | | | | patient care in this regard. |
| images opens up a wealth of benefits for your medical | | | | An efilm workstation will also allow you to distribute |
| practice, and it is all made possible by using a dicom | | | | digital images easily. Digital images can be shared with |
| viewer. | | | | other health professionals who have dicom viewers |
| PACS, or picture archiving and communications | | | | regardless of where they are located worldwide. In this |
| systems, have been used by large hospitals for quite a | | | | manner, a dicom viewer allows you to consult with the |
| while. They were costly to purchase, and thus tended | | | | best diagnosticians anywhere there is Internet access |
| to stay in the realm of large medical facilities with | | | | in a timely manner. |
| budgets that could afford them. | | | | Digital medical monitors also provide you with a means |
| This is not the case today. Smaller clinics and medical | | | | for adjusting digital images. You can rotate images, |
| offices can now afford the versatility and ease of | | | | zoom in and take measurements accurately and easily |
| pacs and a dicom viewer. Digital images are of the | | | | with digital images. These monitors also enable you to |
| highest quality and resolution, and they are quick to | | | | look at multiple images simultaneously, so that you can |
| take. They do not require costly photo chemicals in | | | | make comparisons and contrasts among images. |
| order to develop the images; instead, you can enjoy | | | | Patient care is enhanced, because you can take a |
| instantaneous imaging and viewing with dicom viewers. | | | | more refined look at their digital images very quickly, |
| Digital medical monitors are also useful in terms of | | | | aiding in more accurate diagnoses. |
| storing and retrieving images. They work in this regard | | | | A dicom viewer, in addition to all of these other |
| like your office pc. You can store digital images on a | | | | attributes, makes it easier to comply with HIPPA laws |
| server that literally takes up inches of space. If these | | | | that require storing patient records for a period of time. |
| were traditional film images, they would take up vast | | | | Digital images can be burned to CDs, allowing for |
| storerooms and file cabinets to contain them. Digital | | | | compact storage and easy backup. These viewers |
| images are also easily retrieved on medical monitors. | | | | are moving medicine forward into the digital age. |
| Type in the patient's name, and they are brought up in | | | | |