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EBM Blog
Insights, guides, and updates on medical imaging, DICOM standards, and the EBM mAIn PACS® platform.
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Image Exchange Platforms for Sending Studies Outside Your Network
An image exchange platform solves identity, access and expiry, the recipient viewer, and audit trail: what a raw DICOM transfer alone leaves wide open.
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DICOM Structured Reporting: Turning Findings Into Data
DICOM Structured Reporting encodes findings and measurements as coded, queryable data tied to the exact image each one came from, at a cost to…
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Burned-In Annotations: The De-Identification Problem Hiding in Pixel Data
Burned-in text survives most de-identification passes. The Burned In Annotation attribute can’t be trusted alone, and here is what counts as cleaned pixel data.
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Sizing Medical Imaging Storage for Real Study Volume
Average study size is the wrong number to size an archive from: what drives byte count, why growth compounds unevenly, and who sets the…
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FHIR in Plain Terms: How the Standard Models Clinical Data
FHIR models clinical data as linked resources exchanged over a RESTful API. What a resource is, where FHIR meets DICOM, and what a product…
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What to Ask About Zero-Footprint Viewers Before You Buy
Zero-footprint describes what doesn’t get installed, not what a viewer can do. The buyer’s checklist: rendering, clearance, calibration, and offline behavior.
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What a PACS Costs: The Line Items Buyers Forget
A total cost of ownership breakdown for PACS buyers: what drives the license, integration labor, hardware, storage, support, training, downtime, and exit costs.
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How C-MOVE Pulls Studies Between DICOM Systems
C-MOVE tells an archive to send a study to the AE named in Move Destination, over a connection that AE must accept unsolicited. What…
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DICOM Routers, the Traffic Layer Between Modalities and Archives
A DICOM router decides where a study goes, normalizes what arrives, retries what fails, and holds studies safely when a destination does not answer.
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The Radiology Worklist: How Studies Reach the Right Radiologist
A radiology worklist decides who reads what and in what order. What it holds, how STAT jumps the queue, and what silent failure looks…
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How Product Teams Should Evaluate Cloud PACS Vendors
A partner-side framework for OEMs and VARs evaluating cloud PACS vendors: white-label depth, API access, support escalation, exit terms, and regulatory scope.
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Tablet Viewers: What Changes When the Workstation Is an iPad
A tablet viewer can meet a desktop’s diagnostic bar, but calibration and clearance do not relax. What changes is ambient light, screen space, and…