Dicom Conversion Systems To Improve Medical Offices' Digital Imaging Productivity

Everyone in the medical field is making the shift to digital medical imaging, but it can be costly to make the change outright. There are, however, less expensive ways to switch non-dicom medical modalities to dicom, and that is by using dicom conversion systems. With a dicom converter you gain productivity at a price that is within your budget.

A dicom converter is essentially a means for getting non-dicom equipment and dicom viewers to communicate with each other in a meaningful way. You can take an image in a non-dicom format, send it through the dicom converter, and then from there send it on to a dicom PACS, picture archiving and communications system, where it can be read, saved or printed as a dicom image. The digital image, through dicom conversion, will also then be in the proper format to be sent online over a web browser to any authorized hospital or physician. The dicom converter makes all of this possible, allowing you to keep your current non-digital imaging equipment but bringing it up to digital standards through dicom conversion.

Non-dicom medical images can also be placed on video using dicom conversion. You can also record patient data using this device. The converter basically sits in between the non-dicom medical device and the monitor, and allows for high resolution video capture that can then be transferred to a network, or combined with a PACS server or dicom study. These non-dicom images, after being translated by the dicom converter, can then be distributed to anyone on your local area network, and can be saved and archived like any other dicom images.

Hospitals and medical offices also do a lot of printing and storing of digital images. Images must be saved to CD or DVD in order to be sent to other consulting physicians, and they need to be archived in order to comply with HIPPA regulations. The Epson discproducer was designed with this function in mind. The Epson discproducer was built to exacting specifications to make large-volume CD and DVD burning and printing easy and fast. Customization is wide ranging with the Epson discproducer, which allows you to edit disc labels, format digital data and other features enabling you to take charge of every step in the disc production process. The Epson discproducer also comes with a multi-color inkjet printer and a set of high-capacity ink cartridges allowing you to print forty-five discs per hour.

A dicom converter saves money while at the same time cutting down on waste for all sizes of medical institutions.

In this article Wayne Hemrick writes about
dicom conversion.