DICOM: Solving 6 complicated challenges with simple solutions

DICOM has transformed the way healthcare and the people who depend on it see medical images. 

It has provided key tools for clinical diagnosis & analysis and improved the treatment processes to great extent. DICOM now is ever-present in the medical imaging world. It covers departments from radiology, and cardiology, to dentistry and veterinary medicine.

Today, we are going to see the challenges the healthcare realm faces of medical images and the solutions that can easily eradicate them.

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Challenge No 1: Disorganized workflow

Solution: 

• Traditionally filing, retrieval, and transmitting of data and files were done manually and was tiresome.
• DICOM made image retrieval faster by physicians and provided the ability to access images remotely.
• They can now work more quickly than ever.

Challenge No 2: Troubled data accessibility

Solution: 

• Systems that are compliant with DICOM provide a more easy, convenient, and organized regulation & control of health data.
• Patient health data can be accessed via a single point.
• The images will be integrated into the health facility's databases of DICOM images and data.

Challenge No 3: Large storage space

Solution: 

• The need for physical storage is removed.
• DICOM’s imaging information systems digitally save medical images and data with the utmost security.

Challenge No 4: Limited patient care & diagnosis

Solution: 

• DICOM eases access to health information and provision for better diagnosis.
• DICOM-compliant devices ensure high interoperability worldwide.
• This makes distance education, telediagnosis, consultation, and diagnosis easily possible.
• These improve the diagnosis process and patient care.

Challenge No 5: High costs

Solution: 

• DICOM stores medical images and data digitally thus requiring less physical space.
• Digital storage is less expensive than hard-copy films thus reducing the costs involved.
• DICOM is cost-effective and offers space benefits over old film archives.

Challenge No 6: Access to versatile services

Solution: 

• DICOM offers extra services like printing images on film or DVDs, managing imaging procedure worklists, disclosing archiving and procedure status, CAD results, encrypting datasets, encoding ECGs, and more.
• Diagnostic monitors in DICOM-compliant imaging devices ease the visualization of images when compared to the old method of lightbox viewing.

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