Teleradiology Applies The Speed Of The Internet To Medical Digital Imaging

Last Updated on Friday, 19 November 2010 11:38 Written by admin Monday, 7 September 2009 12:54

Dicom Solutions is an industry leader in Teleradiology, or sending digital patient medical images over a secure transmission network to another clinical digital image viewer. Not only can teleradiology save your medical office money, but it can also be used to provide better medical care to your patients.

Teleradiology systems consist of three main parts: a system for sending images, a transmission network and a dicom viewer. They are available in a range of sizes, so that smaller medical facilities can find teleradiology equipment from Dicom Solutions suitable for their unique purposes and priced to fit their budgets.

Teleradiology also allows for HIPPA-compliant archiving of patient medical images. Digital images can be sent over the Internet to both on-site and off-site servers for back up purposes. This also enables you to have disaster recovery tools immediately at hand should emergencies strike.

Effective teleradiology systems will also enable greater ease in obtaining second opinions and consultations. Because it is an online solution, teleradiology allows physicians and authorized medical personnel located anywhere in the world to communicate with each other instantly, allowing for rapid diagnoses and improved patient care. It can also improve care at rural medical facilities, because physicians there can be exposed to a wider range of digital images as well as have easy access to specialists for consultations. In part, it is because of teleradiology that physicians are more likely to work in rural areas, because they can ensure better patient care through this medical communications equipment.

Teleradiology software can also save a medical office money in several different ways. Because consultations can occur online, there is no need to pay for transportation and accommodations any longer. Because hard-copy medical records require a large storage space to house them for the several years required by HIPPA, and the personnel needed to maintain those records, teleradiology through its entirely electronic environment will help to save on these usual costs as well.

Dicom Solutions offers Candelis ImageGrid and Viztek Opal-Rad PACS as part of its teleradiology systems. The Candelis system features a storage capacity that can be configured to a size to meet your document storage needs and a quick implementation process. Viztek Opal-Rad PACS offers round the clock technical support and the convenient remote access possible through the World Wide Web. For fast Internet speeds applied to digital imaging distribution, Dicom Solutions can answer your questions and provide you with the right teleradiology systems for your medical facility.

Flexible Features Flourish In The Kodak CR Systems

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2010 02:08 Written by admin Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:47

CR systems are the easy answer for any hospital, small- or mid-sized medical facility looking to retrofit radiology equipment that they currently have on hand. Making the switch to digital imaging allows your PACS to become even more functional, because the digital medical images can be archived and distributed electronically, saving a great deal of time and money. If you are a veterinarian or any physician who takes medical digital images out in the field, you will like the fact that certain CR systems are designed to work well in a mobile environment. With superb image quality, as well as savings in labor, space and time, many doctors select CR imaging, and in particular the Kodak CR systems, for their digital imaging needs.

Kodak is proud to offer the Point of Care line of CR units. They include three versions: the CR 120, CR 140, CR 260 and CR 360. All are useful in the acquisition of digital medical images in low exam-volume medical environments.

CR 120

This CR system can be made mobile when placed on a wheeled Z-cart, or it creates a small footprint perfect for use on a tabletop. This compact unit can read twenty plates per hour, and comes with two-fourteen by seventeen inch cassettes with plate, as well as two-ten by twelve inch cassettes with plate. Onyx-RAD software is included for acquisition, chiropractic or general viewing purposes. It is also possible with this system to burn single patient CDs.

CR 140

This Kodak Point of Care system reads forty plates per hour in your low volume or mobile environment, making it a great CR solution for use on cruise ships, nursing facilities and forensic institutions. With this system, you can print or locally archive your medical digital images to CDs or DVDs.

CR 360

The 360 series CR reader can easily handle sixty plates per hour, with a thirty-eight second image display. Both the 360 and 140 readers are also available with a mini-PACS system as well, so that you can send and receive digital images online with its web-based dicom viewer.

Digital imaging is affordable with excellent image quality brought to you by the Kodak CR line of digital image readers.

What Sets the Efilm Workstation Apart from other Diagnostic Tools

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2010 01:54 Written by admin Thursday, 13 August 2009 12:43

Hospitals and other medical facilities may differ on the types of medical hardware they utilize for digital medical imaging, but when it comes to dicom viewer software, the choice is clear: the most often used diagnostic software for digital medical image viewing is the Efilm Workstation. And for good reason, because the efilm dicom viewer software offers several attractive features not found industry wide.

One is that it is easily compatible with other office software operating systems. You can run this viewing software on a Windows 2000 or XP system. The software is also currently being tested for use with MS Vista, and is expected to be available soon.

Another is printing capabilities. Many medical facilities have a wide variety of printers, and getting your workstations to cooperate with the printers can sometimes be a challenge, but one that the efilm viewer has been designed to handle remarkably well.

A convenient display of the digital medical images that you select is possible with this outstanding software. PET, or positron emission tomography, digital images can be displayed at the same time as computed tomography, or CT, images, and the software also enables 3D volume rendering. Multi-planar reconstruction viewing, known as MPR, makes it possible for you to see from any orthogonal or oblique plane the real-time reconstruction of cross-sectional medical digital images. You can also use the handy thumbnail viewer to quickly and easily sort and display the digital medical images that you select.

If you will be sharing a workstation, you will be happy to know that the efilm viewer allows multiple users to save their user profiles on the same workstation, saving you a great deal of time because you will not have to reset all of the toolbar configurations and layout presets each time you sit down to use the workstation. You can also customize per each modality used your toolbars, another timesaving feature.

Once you have your digital medical images the way you want them, you can also create CDs and DVDs with this software. DVDs and CDs may be burned directly from the efilm software, and you can even save to CD and DVD non-dicom files.

Efilm offers you the features you want for your medical office at a price you can afford.