| Every medical facility is concerned with meeting HIPPA | | | | Dicom Storage |
| regulations in place for the storage of medical records. | | | | Medical offices and imaging centers that utilize Dicom |
| HIPPA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and | | | | or dicom converters with their analog equipment have |
| Accountability Act, a law that was passed by the | | | | many options available in terms of dicom image |
| United States Congress in 1996. Part of the Act puts in | | | | storage. Dicom storage can happen at individual |
| place national standards for electronic health care | | | | workstations that are set up with PACS systems. You |
| documents, which include provisions for privacy and | | | | have the flexibility to select dicom image storage that |
| security of health records. Many medical facilities find | | | | allows you to copy digital files to a cd or dvd. This is a |
| that switching over to digital imaging from film imaging | | | | quick and easy way to backup digital files on individual |
| makes the tasks of archiving and disaster recovery | | | | computers. |
| much easier in terms of being HIPPA compliant. | | | | |