Images on CDs Should Be in DICOM Format

摘要

CMS and the FDA should create a policy that all patient CDs containing medical images must be in a DICOM format. Several times a day I get requests to look at outside images. The protocol at my institution is to have the front desk upload the study into our PACS and then have the radiologist review the images directly with the referring physician or compare it with a study performed at my institution. It is not uncommon that the front desk comes over to me with the CD stating that the CD does not contain DICOM images and cannot be uploaded into our PACS.