HIPAX: Medizinische Bildbearbeitung, Archivierung und Kommunikation weltweit

Benefits of Using a Digital Solution for Medical Image Processing, Archiving, and Communication

For some hospitals and physicians, it seems to be not easy to change from an analogous to a digital medical system, because of initial costs and the need to retrain.

On the other hand, the digital image administration, image processing and image archiving today belong to the standard equipment of more and more hospitals and practices realizing that this finally can help to save money and time – and finally to save life.

Systems like Hipax can be run on standard PC components, which helps to keep the initial costs low. The user interface of the programs is clear and easy to be operated.

With the example of the following four subjects, we would like to demonstrate, how Hipax can help to make the work in a hospital or practice easier and more effective:

	Archiving
	Telemedicine
	Patient CD
	DICOM print management

Benefits of Digital Image Processing Systems

	Optimized patient administration system
	Saving costs (e.g. for chemicals and films)
	Reduction of the X-ray dosage
	Space-saving image archive
	Simple and fast archive investigation
	Fast image transmission, e.g. to another hospital

Disadvantages of Digital Image Processing

	Initial costs
	Training period
	Image quality (to get a similar high image quality as the X-ray film offers, special hires monitors have to be used, e.g. for diagnosis)

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