Padimedical: Medical Image Sharing Portal with DICOM Viewer – User experience

Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard medical imaging format for medical imaging information and data. Availability to access DICOM files remotely using smartphones have shown to improve healthcare systems especially for communication between doctors from different centers. Most of DICOM files need to be viewed using conventional institutional DICOM viewer. We developed a software specific to which allows medical personnel to access DICOM images remotely from their own smartphone. This newly created software platform is called Padimedical. The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the user satisfaction. All medical doctors from a radiology department in a tertiary referral center was chosen as correspondent in this study. The survey form was sent to over 30 doctors via email. There were 24 out of 30 respondents completed the survey. The survey showed that Padimedical DICOM viewer was easily accessible (100%), compatible with OS operating system (100%) user friendly (87.1%), high signal to noise ratio (100%), 24 out of 24 respondents (100%) suggested that the image viewing was smooth and responsive. All respondents would recommend to their peers (n=24). X respondents suggested that the quality of images was high (76%) and X respondent suggested that the contents in this newly created platform was easy to share (96.15%). All the participants were able to make correct diagnosis using Padimedical. Overall rating of our platform is 4.3 out of 5. Conclusion: Based from this pilot survey Padimedical software was easily accessible remotely using smartphones, compatible with OS operating system, viewing images were smooth and responsive, produce high quality image, and easily to share DICOM contents. Keywords-DICOM, images, software