Dicom Archive Keeps Important Medical Images and Documents Secure

Dicom Solutions offers cost-effective archiving for all of your patient records and images. If you are in a smaller medical office or clinic, an imaging center, an orthopedic or chiropractic office, radiology department, dental, podiatry or veterinary office, the use of a PACS, or picture archiving and communications system, up until recently had been out of the question due to the high cost. Now Dicom Solutions can provide you a quality dicom archive for one-third of the regular price.

Dicom Archive Appliances Add Speed to Medical Communications

The Viztek dicom appliance is one popular choice of digital imaging and communication in medicine system. The Viztek Opal-Rad Web Server applies the speed of the Internet to your medical communications. Online, real time collaboration and consultation is possible through using the Viztek unit, which allows doctors and medical technicians anywhere in the world with Internet access to be able to securely send and receive patient medical images and reports.

The Dicom Network Serves all of your Imaging Needs

A dicom archive is part of a PACS system that consisting of PACS software running on a clinical workstation utilizing Windows, MacOS or Linux operating systems. A dicom network can be built by using a router to connect the clinical workstations in your medical office to printers, scanners, servers and other hardware that makes the system personalized and fully functional to serve the particular medical clinic's imaging and archiving needs. A dicom network makes inter-office or external medical records distribution easy, while also saving you money. No longer are hard copy records always needed, because the records you need are available with the click of a mouse at your clinical workstation that is set up to be a dicom archive.

A dicom appliance such as the Viztek archive is a wise choice when considering how to protect your important patient records in case of an emergency. All of the medical records that you create everyday, since they are in a digital format, can be quickly backed up on CDs and DVDs. By transmitting the records securely online, they may also be backed up at an offsite location. In this way, if there ever was fire, flood, or hurricane damage, the patient records would nevertheless be safe and sound.

A dicom archive, as part of a PACS system, can also be used in conjunction with a RIS, or radiology information system. This allows your front office to register patients and schedule appointments from the clinical workstation. Reports can also be generated, and if needed at your medical office, the RIS system works well for mammography tracking. A digital archive makes it quick, easy and inexpensive to maintain patient medical records.