

Most EHR systems support the DICOM standard for viewing and transmitting images.

It is an international standard file format and network communications protocol developed by the American College of Radiology (ACR) specifically for medical imaging. To accomplish this, many providers are choosing standalone DICOM viewers.ĭICOM stands for Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine. As medicine moves towards a film-less future, providers must have the software tools necessary to share, view, or edit medical images.

Interoperability woes can make it difficult to share and view medical images from disparate systems, especially if providers are using outdated EMR software or don’t have a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). EFilm Readers function similar to a disk drive, simply insert your card into the Reader and access it like a floppy disk.Easily connects to your computer via USB or Parallel port for transferring images up to 45 times faster than your camera's serial port.Each eFilm Reader is backed with a 5-year Warranty and guaranteed to be 100% compatible with the appropriate memory card.Extend the battery. Digital mammography and other medical imaging connectivity solutions from Merge Healthcare. RIS and PACS integrated radiology workflow solutions. As you type, parsing errors are listed so you always know if the document is correct. XRay is real-time, validating XML editor. Despite high adoption rates and a myriad of choices, the complexity of many medical software systems can frustrate even the most technologically literate provider.
