Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed 0.9.rc2

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > NEW: support dicomscope as DICOM viewer

Don't be fooled. This means *also* support dicomscope in
addition to those already supported.

> I just noticed that the med-practice[1] metapackage contains one package
> which provides DICOM viewer functionality: aeskulap.  As somebody who is
> not using this package I wonder, whether this package is somehow
> specific for a medical practice (and if yes, why) or whether this is
> just a historical artifact because it was simply the first in Debian.
> Could you give some kind of usage statistics, what DICOM viewer which is
> packaged for Debian is the most useful in a medical practice?

Let me tell you this: *all of them are crap* as far as the
busy doctor goes. Aeskulap is, perhaps, closest to the
*looks* of the typical Windows browsers. Dicomscope OTOH
scratches the surface when it comes to offering the built-in
tools a doctor needs to evaluate images (but doesn't support
DICOMDIR reading AFAICT).

Here's another dirty little secret: Many of the commercial
viewers which are put on patient CD-ROMs are crap as well :-))

OsiriX and/or CADx need to get packaged for Debian !!  :-))

Karsten
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