| monitors, also known as dicom viewers, in essence | | | | online over the Internet. Patient digital images can be |
| make light work of viewing all of your patient's digital | | | | backed up on an offsite server, protecting your |
| images. Digital images are popular with all types of | | | | medical facility from the nightmare of losing images to |
| medical staff because of their ease of image | | | | flooding or fire. A dicom viewer makes all of this |
| enhancing, storage and retrieval. Medical monitors allow | | | | possible. |
| you to see all of those digital images and manipulate | | | | You can also use your dicom viewer to help with |
| them as required. | | | | retrieval of patient digital images. Just as you use your |
| Medical monitors allow for digital images to be brought | | | | personal computer to retrieve documents that are |
| up to the best resolution for diagnosis. Digital pictures | | | | stored on a CD, your hard drive or a server, so too |
| can be adjusted for brightness and contrast quickly | | | | you can retrieve digital images via the dicom viewer |
| and easily. You can crop, zoom in, pan around your | | | | and the pacs software that runs on it. There is much |
| digital images. Multiple images can be put up on the | | | | less room for error when using your computer to |
| dicom viewer simultaneously, allowing you to compare | | | | retrieve records than might happen if people were |
| and contrast them. Because of the ease of | | | | retrieving them. Film images can be misfiled and |
| manipulation of the digital images, it allows your | | | | damaged over time, but with digital images seen on a |
| diagnosticians to get a clearer picture of the patient, | | | | dicom viewer this is less likely to happen. |
| and enables them to make more accurate diagnoses | | | | Medical monitors can also be used in conjunction with |
| because the images are more defined. | | | | a variety of different brands of pacs software. All |
| Storage of digital images is easy using medical | | | | offer you the ability to view your digital images, but |
| monitors such as dicom viewers. Digital pictures can | | | | they offer slightly different features, so you will want |
| be stored on your medical monitor's hard drive. They | | | | to compare each system to see which will work best |
| can be stored on CDs as well as servers. This | | | | for you and the needs of your medical facility. Monitors |
| flexibility allows you the freedom to send a patient to a | | | | are suitable for use at mammography and radiology |
| specialist with a CD of his or her digital images, or they | | | | clinics, as well as veterinary, dental and other medical |
| can be accessed securely by authorized personnel | | | | offices. |