DICOM as an Option?
Herman Oosterwijk
The AI-guy, Assisting in AI technology deployment, entrepreneur, expert trainer/consultant on PACS, interoperability, standards.
Imagine you have purchased a new car over the winter and, as summer approaches, you are trying to switch on the AC. Unfortunately, you get a message on your console that the AC option is not enabled (even though installed) and must be purchased separately to make it work. Unless you live in Alaska, Siberia, Iceland, or another country close to the North or South Pole, having an AC is pretty much a necessity in most cars today especially with global warming, and having to pay extra for that feature could be considered an unpleasant “marketing trick”. Even worse, if all the options are not explained clearly when signing the purchase agreement, I would consider this a very poor practice.
When the first DICOM connections were deployed, more than 30 years ago, there was a need for a separate interface board
The problem with these options is that they are not clearly stated upfront and finding a budget to pay for it later is often an issue. I have experienced this problem in two recent cases, first with an Ultrasound from a major manufacturer who had only a printer interface while the export feature to send images to a PACS and share them with other physicians was not enabled. To enable this required a simple software configuration
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Therefore my plea to all imaging vendors is to stop playing games and sell only fully featured DICOM-enabled devices
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CTO @ 5C Network | Building AI to deliver radiology reports in 30 mins to millions
8 个月Not just in Africa, even in India we keep facing the similar issue with OEM's, Thankyou for bringing this up Herman Oosterwijk
Director, Physician Practice U.S. Army Veteran
8 个月Great perspective!
Unemployed, open to work Senior System Developer Medical, Commercial and Military Imaging DICOM/HL7/IHE
9 个月P.S. ANger Camera X,Y,Z ---> DICOM.
General Manager, Nebras Technology
9 个月I have similar case that customer after purchasing the PACS, he found that modality missing DICOM store functionality and he need to pay around 50K USD to enable it. he can't afford that so now he has two options either to cancel the PACS installation or to find manual method to export/import images ??
Contractor / Freelancer: Clinical Trial Imaging (Biomarker) Management Specialist, Consultant, Clinical + Scientific Project Manager (PMP), Owner/CEO of ClinTrimag Services. Delivering EU based remote services.
9 个月Fully agree ! I see this also back in Clinical Trials requiring Central Image reads. DICOM exports are blocked and release is a 10K purchase.