| Many Podiatry offices are making the switch to | | | | ways. A PACS allows you to view digital medical |
| Podiatry digital x-ray systems. When used in | | | | images on a dicom workstation. These digital |
| conjunction with Podiatry PACS, your podiatry | | | | medical images may be enhanced with zoom, |
| clinic will experience a new wave of efficiency | | | | crop, rotation, brightness and contrast features, |
| thanks to the digitizing of your patient's medical | | | | making for a better x-ray and better patient |
| images. | | | | care. Dicom images may then, if the |
| The first step is to change over to digital medical | | | | workstations are connected to the Internet, be |
| imaging. Many podiatry offices choose to do this | | | | sent and received via a secure World Wide Web |
| using Podiatry CR equipment. CR digital imaging | | | | connection on a local area network, a wide area |
| capture systems can work in conjunction with | | | | network or a virtual private network. |
| existing film x-ray equipment that you might | | | | Another great benefit that comes to podiatry |
| currently have in your medical office. CR | | | | centers using a PACS system is that it is much |
| systems can be used to retrofit film imagers, | | | | easier to stay in compliance with HIPPA |
| changing them into digital imaging devices that will | | | | regulations concerning patient privacy. Patients' |
| produce images in the dicom format. Another | | | | digital images and records must be backed up and |
| option for Podiatry x-ray is to use the powerful | | | | archived in a secure manner, and your |
| Podiatry DR imaging systems currently available. | | | | workstation running on PACS can be set to do |
| DR imagers offer the highest resolution available in | | | | this automatically for you. You can save digital |
| digital medical imaging, and make a top choice for | | | | medical images quickly and easily to a CD or DVD, |
| medical offices. | | | | or you may send it to a server for additional |
| A digital image format much like jpeg, dicom | | | | storage options. Off-site storage in this manner |
| images allow the medical office to utilize a host of | | | | also means that you have all your records |
| solutions for making office workflow improve. | | | | securely stowed should you need them for |
| The most impressive one used by podiatry | | | | disaster recovery. |
| offices is the Podiatry PACS software and | | | | Today, contemporary podiatry offices take |
| hardware systems. A PACS system allows a | | | | advantage of all the help they can get through |
| personal computer to read the dicom images and | | | | the use of digital medical imaging and Podiatry |
| then work with them in a variety of useful | | | | PACS systems. |