MRIs from many imagery centers

[heybrother]

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Curious if anyone has an even better way to do this.

When I initially started practicing I was frustrated by the fact that every hospital, imagery center, etc had different software for MRIs/CTs etc. I would semi-regularly have patients bring discs where I couldn't immediately figure out how to navigate the imagery or even open the imagery etc.

I've recently installed MicroDicom DICOM Viewer that is free. Now I simply insert the disc and the program pulls all of the imagery from it for me. No more looking at it in the other companies software. Has been a nice improvement in quality of life / reliability. Haven't told anyone "I can't open your disc" since I got it.

Perhaps a unique problem, but anyone have a software recommendation or a different way of approaching this.

 

[Sendin_Toes_2market]

I just had patients bring the disc with them app built in. In my hospital job as well. less work for my staff.

 

[Boba Foot]

I just had patients bring the disc with them app built in. In my hospital job as well. less work for my staff.

Downside to this is some hospitals and practices have Windows that has admin privileges locked down and you can't install whatever proprietary viewer that is on the disc.

 

[Feli]

I am pretty lucky... get 90% of my patient images on one of two companies (most area hospitals use one or the other, each has many locations). I have web portals for those.
There is one hospital system that makes their imaging hard to get (they employ pods and many other types of docs), but they'll upload them to one of the major companies if we fax request.
Sure, the websites are slow or down a few days per year, but it's pretty good overall.

More and more outside and out-iof-state places have a web portal where they will give us a website and an "access code"... works pretty good and fast (basically the way CDs are supposed to... but seldom does).

The CDs (and USB drives) are really hit or miss... I find them pretty time consuming. Will try them from time to time, but they are a drag for sure. I have to occasionally just tell patients: "can't see your ankle fracture because that Calif/Montana/whatever Urgent care CD won't load, so we can either re-order the XRs today or just do the best we can and get follow up XR in a month."

The Dicom viewer is absolutely good to have, but seems I have the CDs down to only one per week or less on avg.

 

[dtrack22]

Downside to this is some hospitals and practices have Windows that has admin privileges locked down and you can't install whatever proprietary viewer that is on the disc.

Or the tech forgot to put the viewer app on the disc all together, and it’s just a bunch of image files

 

[Hybrocure]

My favorite is when I upload the X-rays on a disk and they’re nonweightbearing (99% of the time) so I just have to do their X-rays in office anyways and I wasted 10 minutes for nothing