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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the third version of a standard developed by American College of Radiology (ACR) and National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). DICOM is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol. The communication protocol is an application protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems. DICOM files can be exchanged between two entities that are capable of receiving image and patient data in DICOM format. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) holds the copyright to this standard. It was developed by the DICOM Standards Committee, whose members are also partly members of NEMA. DICOM enables the integration of scanners, servers, workstations, printers, and network hardware from multiple manufacturers into a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The different devices come with DICOM conformance statements which clearly state the DICOM classes they support. DICOM has been widely adopted by hospitals and is making inroads in smaller applications like dentists' and doctors' offices. DICOM is known as NEMA Standard PS3, and as ISO Standard 12052. Examples of Modalities supported in DICOM are: - AS: Angioscopy - BI: Biomagnetic Imaging - CD: Color Flow Doppler - CF: Cinefluorography - CP: Colposcopy - CR: Computed Radiography - CS: Cystoscopy - CT: Computed Tomography - DD: Duplex Doppler - DF: Digital Fluoroscopy - DG: Diaphanography - DM: Digital Microscopy - DS: Digital Subtraction Angiography - DX: Digital X-Ray - EC: Echocardiography - ES: Endoscopy - FA: Fluorescein Angiography - FS: Fundoscopy - HC: Hard Copy - LP: Laparoscopy - LS: Laser Surface Scan - MA: Magnetic Resonance Angiography - MG: Mammography - MR: Magnetic Resonance - MS: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - NM: Nuclear Medicine - OT: Other - PT: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - RF: Radio Fluoroscopy - RG: Radiographic Imaging (Conventional Film Screen) - RTDOSE (a.k.a. RD): Radiotherapy Dose - RTIMAGE: Radiotherapy Image - RTPLAN (a.k.a. RP): Radiotherapy Plan - RTSTRUCT (a.k.a. RS): Radiotherapy Structure Set - SR: Structured Reporting - ST: Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography - TG: Thermography - US: Ultrasound - VF: Videofluorography - XA: X-Ray Angiography - XC: eXternal Camera - ECG: Electrocardiograms

Medical Imaging Informatics, also known as Radiology Informatics or Imaging Informatics is a sub specialty of radiology that aims to improve the efficiency, accuracy, usability and reliability of medical imaging services within the healthcare enterprise. It is devoted to the study of how information about and contained within medical images is retrieved, analyzed, enhanced, and exchanged within radiology and throughout the medical enterprise. As radiology is an inherently data-intensive and technology-driven specialty of medicine, radiologists have become leaders in Imaging Informatics. However, with the proliferation of digitized images across the practice of medicine to include fields such as cardiology, dermatology, surgery, gastroenterology, obstetrics, gynecology and pathology, the advances in Imaging Informatics are also being tested and applied in other areas of medicine. Various industry players and vendors involved with medical imaging, along with IT experts and other biomedical informatics professionals, are contributing and getting involved in this expanding field. Imaging Informatics exists at the intersection of several broad fields: - biological science - includes bench sciences such as biochemistry, microbiology, physiology and genetics - clinical services - includes the practice of medicine, bedside research, including outcomes and cost-effectiveness studies, and public health policy - information science - deals with the acquisition, retrieval and manipulation of data - medical physics / engineering - entails the use of equipment and technology for a medical purpose Key areas relevant to Imaging Informatics include: - Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Component Systems - Imaging Informatics for the Enterprise - Image-Enabled Electronic Medical Records - Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS) - Digital Image Acquisition - Image Processing and Enhancement - Image Data Compression - 3D, Visualization and Multimedia - Speech Recognition - Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis (CAD) - Imaging Facilities Design - Imaging Vocabularies and Ontologies - Data-mining from Medical Image Databases - Transforming the Radiological Interpretation Process (TRIP) - DICOM, HL7 and other Standards - Workflow and Process Modeling and Simulation - Quality Assurance - Archive Integrity and Security - Teleradiology - Radiology Informatics Education - Digital Imaging

Group for news, discussions, developments regarding radiology conferences.

For veterinary radiologists

This group is for people who bill for radiology groups or hospital radiology departments or manage those who do. We will use this as a forum to exchange information.

This group is for people who sell to radiology groups or radiology departments in hospitals. This is for the exchange of information so that we may provide higher service and support to our customers and prospects.

This group is designed to assist members of GPO entities to leverage the purchasing power of their provider(s) to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. Discussions can revolve around the administrative fees from vendors and or providers. Also discussion around purchasing needs and thoughts on competitive pricing negotiated by GPOs are open topics.

General group for radiologists practising in Japan to meet, network and participate in discussion. Join up and join in.

This group actively provides radiology professionals and entrepreneurs a forum to discuss opportunities, technologies, and various issues regarding the real estate world of healthcare facilities. The group is dedicated to construction, maintainence, updating, and expansion of medical facilities. The group emphasizes discussion on facilities, quaternary hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals, outpatient centers, imagaing centers, and physician practices, and issues factilities face in construction, growth, management, ROI, etc. We capture all the latest news about facilities as well.

This group actively provides radiology professionals and entrepreneurs a forum to discuss turf wars. Specialty practices do not always agree with one another. Here is a forum for fair, respectful discourse on issues that are sensitive to specialists. Common ground is the goal but open, fair questions and information can be shared freely. We capture all the latest news about turf battles as well.

This group actively provides a forum to discuss regulation changes, compliance and various issues regarding the regulated world of healthcare activities. The group is dedicated to compliance issues, such as from JC and ACR. The group emphasizes the discussion and propagation of quality discussion around compliance issues, including facts about changes but also opinion about how compliance will impact the business of healthcare. We capture all the latest news about compliance as well as providing links to the regulation organizations.

General group for radiologists practising in the Middle East to keep up to date with the latest news, network with thought leaders and participate in informed discussion.

Here is a Place where PACS Professionals can post there information for Recruters.

This group is for companies that market contrast media and for those medical professionals who use and purchase contrast media products.

This group is exclusively for radiology technicians. Keep up-to-date with the latest news, informed discussions, and network with thought leaders.