<story><title>Dicom File Format Basics</title><url>https://www.vladsiv.com/dicom-file-format-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juliansark</author><text>My amazing experience with DICOM, an open standard with viewer software on SourceForge, is that I once took pictures in the format to a locally renowned neurologist.&lt;p&gt;She plugged my USB stick into her Windows XP workstation, ca. 2019, without the slightest hesitation, then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is, and to ask me why I didn&amp;#x27;t bring her either the proprietary viewer program, or JPEGs.&lt;p&gt;Had I brought the viewer, she would have probably launched the .exe with equally no hesitation.&lt;p&gt;At least in these parts of the woods, this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Until I took a senior developer role at a radiology practice I had no idea what DICOM was. The idea that a physician should know is kind of fanciful, isn&amp;#x27;t it? In 99.99% of cases, they load images by clicking a button that says &amp;quot;Display images&amp;quot; in a PACS, or RIS, or the images are loaded automatically by workflow. It&amp;#x27;s like expecting someone who has only ever viewed webpages, and never even viewed the source let alone made a webpage, to know the difference between JPEG, GIF, and PNG.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dicom File Format Basics</title><url>https://www.vladsiv.com/dicom-file-format-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juliansark</author><text>My amazing experience with DICOM, an open standard with viewer software on SourceForge, is that I once took pictures in the format to a locally renowned neurologist.&lt;p&gt;She plugged my USB stick into her Windows XP workstation, ca. 2019, without the slightest hesitation, then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is, and to ask me why I didn&amp;#x27;t bring her either the proprietary viewer program, or JPEGs.&lt;p&gt;Had I brought the viewer, she would have probably launched the .exe with equally no hesitation.&lt;p&gt;At least in these parts of the woods, this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>This is like a restaurant that has a QR code on the table instead of a menu.&lt;p&gt;Yes, it&amp;#x27;s absolutely possible for someone to use the QR code to fetch the menu from a website using their phone.  But unless you do it often, you just don&amp;#x27;t even know how to do it.&lt;p&gt;Doctors are insulated from DICOM the same way that most humans don&amp;#x27;t normally type &amp;quot;h t t p : &amp;#x2F; &amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;  They just click on links and things show up for them.</text></comment>