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it sounds like there was no electronic way to share the digital version of the CT scan Seems unlikely. A few years ago I was given a CD-ROM of the scan of my
by robmiller 9y ago
it sounds like there was no electronic way to share the digital version of the CT scan
Seems unlikely. A few years ago I was given a CD-ROM of the scan of my jaw and was able to download a free DICOM viewer to look at it. These things seem to be standardized.
Wasn't really excited to take that much dose to my head but at least I have the souvenir of a 3D view of my jaw...
- nwhatt 9y agoBy electronic I meant over a network - a burnt CD may have well been the media that got lost in OP's situation. The problem is that the digital scan is isolated to his ER's network, and without a business relationship between the two parties, a CD is the only way to transmit the data.
- ch4s3 9y agoThis is pretty key and why HIEs exist. They're a hackish solution though. Some sort of national data exchange would be useful.
- specialist 9y agoI wrote a DICOM fetch and view app (mid 2000s). Image viewer was the easy part. Network interop was a mess. Worse than any ASN.1, SNMP, or XML-based interop work I've done. I can't imagine it's gotten any better since.