Digital technologies are rapidly becoming popular in the medical field.

In particular, in the Medical Digital Imaging field the introduction of the digital technologies has caused and is causing deep transformations in the way the hospital departments' workflow is handled and in the diagnostic means provided to specialized physicians.
Digital technologies have actually eliminated the need for the radiographic film for the acquisition, display, distribution and archival of medica images. Today, these images are often digital from the source, and modern PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) allow physician or specialized technicians connected to the network to view and analyze them in every moment. The digital approach leads to a higher effieciency in terms of time, money and storage space.

The introduction of the DICOM standard (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) in the middle of the Nineties has given a strong impulse to the spreading of digital technologies in the Medical Imaging. The primary target of the DICOM standard is to define a common, open and vendor-independent platform to transmit and store medical images and related data.
Today, thanks to the DICOM standard, it is possible to setup a hospital ward with modalities of different vendors, connected to the same network; they will be able to communicate and to transfer acquired images to a central digital archive (PACS). Physicians may perform their diagnosis directly on-screen, through high resolution monitors displaying medical images. It is also possible to send the medical images to another hospital, through the Internet (with some security precautions), in order to obtain a "second opinion" about complex cases.

NeoLogica has a great experience in designing, developing and integrating DICOM-compliant software solutions.

Here are some DICOM solutions by NeoLogica:

DICOMBurner, the DICOM CD/DVD Burning software
DICOMJet, the PC-based DICOM Print software
RemotEye, the Web-based DICOM Viewer