The Mobile Chiropractic Practice

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:04 Written by admin Thursday, 2 September 2010 10:00

Although most chiropractors have a traditional office for use as a home base for their practice, several are seeing the advantages of taking their practice on the road.  Many patients who are elderly and cannot drive, those in nursing facilities and hospitals are not easily able to visit your chiropractic office, and so instead you can bring your services to your clients with a mobile chiropractic practice.

In order to do so, however, you will need to bring with you the types of equipment and technology that you would have access to at your home office, in order to provide your patients with the best possible care.  It is for this reason that many chiropractors choose mobile x-ray in DR and CR formats as their Chiropractic x-ray system of choice.

One of the many benefits that comes from using mobile digital x-ray equipment is that with a CR or DR system, every image you take out on the road will be compatible with your digital imaging equipment back at your office.  You won’t need to make any additional investments in special mobile equipment, a convenience that comes from digital imaging systems.

The digital images that you take out in the field will be able to be read on your clinical workstations, although you can set up a laptop computer with wireless access and running on a PACS system in order to view and send your patients’ digital x-rays back to the home office for consultations, referrals and archiving purposes, even when you are out and about, away from the office.

Another advantage that you will enjoy with mobile digital x-ray systems is that they are sturdy yet lightweight.  This is important due to the transporting of equipment that occurs in a mobile practice setting.  It simply makes it easier every time you need to load and unload digital x-ray equipment.

CR and DR units also come with wheeled carts, so that you can more easily get the equipment to the patient.  Because the units are designed with mobility in mind, they typically offer a much smaller footprint than systems you might use in your spacious home office, making them much easier to use in unfamiliar locales and will take up less room in your medical van or other form of transportation.

You can learn more about the wide array of Chiropractic x-ray systems available from Dicom, which also include compatible PACS, diagnostic monitors, viewers, clinical workstations and more for the mobile Chiropractic practice.

Veterinary Digital X-Ray: What You Need To Know

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:00 Written by admin Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:54

It is important for every medical practice to have a digital x-ray system in place, but this is especially true for veterinarians.  Working with patients who cannot specifically tell you where they hurt or what their problems are makes using diagnostic tools extremely important for providing excellent patient care.  A veterinary office will want to be equipped with the ability to acquire, archive, view and distribute digital medical images in a way that enhances your office’s workflow and is cost-effective.

A Vet X-ray system begins with the acquisition of digital images.  Many Veterinarians find that Vet DR and Vet CR imaging systems work very well for their specialized medical practices.   Both types of images can be used either in a stationary radiology room at your home practice, or there are models available that make it possible for you to provide digital x-rays in a mobile practice setting.  These units can also be used to retrofit your existing film x-ray equipment, making it less expensive to make the switch to digital imaging because you only buy the components of the system that you need for your practice.

Storage of digital images is vitally important in order to maintain accurate and complete patient records, an important step in providing superior patient care at your practice.  You can utilize a PACS system, which will allow you to store your digital images quickly, conveniently, and will save you money on archiving and handling costs.  Digital images may be saved to CD or DVD, or you can opt to send the images to an offsite server for long-term storage in the event that disaster recovery is needed.

You can also use your PACS system to view digital x-rays.  When enhanced with a high-resolution diagnostic monitor that works with your personal computer, you will have an optimized clinical workstation that will allow you to efficiently read your x-rays, allowing you to save money by improving productivity in the office.

The PACS appliance will also let you transmit your digital images over the World Wide Web.  This makes is much easier to do a real-time consultation with a specialist located nearly anywhere in the world, which also enables your ability to provide outstanding patient care.  Digital images and other digital text records can quickly and easily be sent online, saving time, which may help to save patients’ lives.

Dicom has the answers for your digital x-ray needs, so visit our website for more information.

Direct Digital Radiography (DR) Improves The Efficiency Of Urgent Care Facilities

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:59 Written by admin Monday, 16 August 2010 02:46

In an urgent care environment, every second counts when it comes to delivering excellent patient care.  Because speed and efficiency are so important when critical patients are being examined, many urgent care facilities have made the switch to urgent care DR x-ray systems.  We offer a full range of digital imaging systems suitable for urgent care facilities, including DR systems.

Many hospitals and emergency rooms choose DR as their urgent care x-ray system of choice.  Before digital x-ray, urgent care facilities used film x-rays, which take quite a while to develop.  All of that time is now greatly reduced through the use of digital imaging devices.  In fact, direct digital radiography is currently the fastest method for taking medical digital images available.

There are several reasons why critical care facilities make the switch to urgent care DR systems.  Each time you need to use x-ray equipment with a patient, the entire exam will go faster with digital imaging systems in place.  This is because you eliminate the need for film developing.  Diagnoses will also improve with the use of a DR system because of the image enhancing features such as changing the contrast, brightness and resolution of the digital images, as well as the ability to perform measurements with ease and bring up the patient notes and images instantly.

Another benefit is that you can transmit digital medical images over the Internet, allowing you to consult with specialists and other physicians in a fast way completely impossible with film.  All of this will go to improve your urgent care office‘s workflow.

Dicom Solutions offers urgent care DR imagers from SmartRad, Neo DR, X-Caliber and Naomi DR.  SmartRad offers flat panel detectors that are integrated into the unit, while the Neo DR is the first system that provides cassette-sized wireless digital productivity that fits on your current urgent care facility’s equipment quickly and easily with no retrofitting involved.  X-Caliber offers charge-coupling device technology that provides you with a long-lasting unit due to no internal moving parts as well as no replacement imaging plates needed.  There is no waiting involved when you use digital imaging equipment from Naomi.  Only a few seconds are needed from the time you capture your digital medical image to the time you are viewing it.

Dicom Solutions offers everything you need to put a digital urgent care x-ray system into effect at your facility.