Having worked with medical software, especially dicom: Where's the incentive? I absolutely agree it's ridiculous when they don't follow the standard, but the a

Having worked with medical software, especially dicom: Where's the incentive? I absolutely agree it's ridiculous when they don't follow the standard, but the appeal of vendor lock-in is just too much. I don't know how to change that, unfortunately. The data flows down (Disclaimer: I am not an xray/mri/hospital tech in any way, and might be wrong): IME, there's not much "importing" of patient data into the medical devices, so there's no reason for vendors to play along. The data flows from the machine, to the dr/patient/whoever, so the vendor has the ability to dump it out in any format they want.