DGImage is a cost effective and complete solution designed and developed by iKure TechSoft (P) Ltd. for medical image acquisition and management of hospitals. Medical imaging is the process used to create images of the human body or its parts for clinical purposes. Usually these images are provided to patients in the form of films and scans as a hard copy. DGImage is the technology to work with and store a digital format of these images thereby helping hospitals become more environment-friendly by eliminating the use of paper, films, and minimizing the use of scanners and printers.
A multi pronged product from iKure, DGImage has the following components and functionalities:
Ø Acquisition of Medical images from various modalities like CR, DR, CT, PET, MRI, MI and Ultrasound. These digitized medical images along with relevant information are submitted to the DgImage gateway over TCP/IP network protocol for further processing by DGImage’s Image Processing Engine.
Ø Integration points for non-DICOM compliant modalities: DgImage complies with international standards such as DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). But it works with non-DICOM compliant image sources as well.
Ø Dicomizes the medical images: In case the images received at the image processing engine are non-DICOM compliant, they are submitted to Dicomizer engine of DGImage, which standardizes the image as per DICOM standards.
Ø Compress and Encrypt the Medical images: The image processing engine uses industry standard algorithms for lossless compression and image encryption before storing them in the DGImage database. This helps hospitals in maintaining both - a high security standard and reduced storage space.
Ø Index and archive the Medical images: Hospitals need a long-term solution for medical image archiving that optimizes on volume, storage capacity and on-demand access. In order to achieve these targets we use the DGImage database with appropriate indexing, which facilitates faster retrieval of images in real time.
Ø Physical Data Backup of medical images: DgImage supports image backup on CDs and other backup media for up to 2 years. After a backup is taken, the images can be deleted from the database to free memory for new patients.
Ø Facilitate external system to query the data from DgImage database: Only authorized personnel are given access to the system.
Ø Integration points with internal and external Information Systems: In general, hospitals have various workflows catering to different healthcare processes. To support these workflows, multiple Information Systems are in place. For an efficient functioning, all these workflows need to work in harmony. DGImage helps to integrate all image related workflow by providing query and retrieval protocols to obtain images from the database in real time.
Ø View and analyze Images using DgImage viewer: DGImage Image Viewer, another component of the DGImage package, supports viewing and analysis of both DICOM and non-DICOM images. The Images can be exported to the most common picture or movie file formats. Dicomizer wizard is integrated with DGImage Image Viewer.
Ø Pre built integration to Smartkure and Medico-Informatics: DGImage has a pre-built integration in place with iKure’s other products - Smartkure and Medico-Informatics. This provides the hospitals with a complete solution integrating all workflows around patient management under a single platform.
Looking at the features of our product one can easily grasp its multi pronged benefits. The image above explains the structure and connectivity of DGImag. The image processing engine is the core component of DGImage. It receives images from the gateway server, processes the image and stores it on the database. It also enables the integration of DGImage with web server, authorization server, external systems, printers, archives, backup media etc. Hence, this product aids all entities of the medical system – Hospitals, Doctors and Patients. Some of its implicit benefits are:
ü Helps patients: The amount of data obtained in a single scan is very extensive. Most of this data is usually discarded when making films. However this data can be saved as digital format and that can save patients time and money, while reducing their exposure to radiation. As their scans are stored on a central storage system, patients need not worry about protecting the films.
ü Helps doctors: The doctors can modify the images (size, contrast, color, resolution, etc) using Image Viewer for better examination. They can also cross-refer the reports over the network to other doctors in real time.
ü Helps Hospitals: DGImage helps hospitals build a centralized Image Information and Management System to fetch, handle, store, analyze and transfer-over-the-network. It also enables hospitals to carry out image handling in a secured way prohibiting any unauthorized access to the hospital's Medical images.
ü Medical tourism and Diagnosis of remote patients: DGImage complies with international standards such as DICOM thus enabling hospitals to exchange more and more information with hospitals across the globe.
ü Adhering to a uniform standard for Medical Image Handling: DICOM is almost universally accepted among both manufacturers of medical imaging equipment, health care institutions and their IT departments. It has emerged as the common protocol for medical image communication world wide.
Medical imaging also finds its use in scientific and industrial applications. It has become a major tool in clinical trials since it enables rapid diagnosis with visualization and quantitative assessment. DGImage can be helpful in streamlining processes in an industry and making it much easier to store, retrieve and analyze data.
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