In decades past, the only option for medical imaging was to use film imaging systems; many medical offices still have these systems to this day. However, in recent years, with the tremendous drop in price for all sorts of electronic devices, and most importantly the widespread use of the personal computer, digital technology has experienced unheard of price reductions for medical electronic appliances, such as radiology PACS. You can now find affordable PACS that small and medium-sized medical facilities, including imaging centers, hospitals, veterinary, podiatry, orthopedic, urgent care, and chiropractic medical medical specialties, can take advantage of right now.

Orthopedic PACS, for example, are available in several different forms for your use. You might need a full PACS system in order to meet the needs of every medical facility inside your medical network. For smaller medical facilities, there are also mini versions of PACS available. These offer a cost-effective solution for the medical office with a low volume of digital images. Your PACS system can also be combined with an RIS software solution, so that you can combine your digital images with text documents all stored in the DICOM format, for use in archiving as well as distributing your digital DICOM information.

An affordable PACS solution can be used to allow you to effortlessly handle the storage of your digital medical images. The good news is that a PACS can accommodate digital images taken from a variety of modalities, including MRI, PET, CT, Mammography, Ultrasound and others, because those images get translated into the DICOM medical imaging format. In this form, the clinical workstations on your medical network that are hooked up to your radiology PACS appliance can then view and work with the same digital images simultaneously, greatly improving the workflow of your entire medical network as well as each individual medical office.

An orthopedic PACS, for instance, can also be used to help you distribute your medical digital images. They essentially can be sent as a secure email transaction, on your local area network, wide area network, or a virtual private network. This allows for better patient care because you can get speedy online consultations from physicians that may not even be at your medical facility but in a locale far across the world.

With all of these advantages to your office productivity, and with PACS systems starting at only five hundred dollars a month, you can benefit from making the switch to digital imaging in your medical facility.