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An imaging centre's day: register the study, view the images, sign the report, release it
DrOnlineIQ lets an imaging centre register a study for a chart patient, store DICOM, PNG and JPEG files privately, open them in a built-in viewer, and take the report through draft, signed and amended versions written by a doctor, then release it to the patient's portal. It is not a PACS and not a diagnostic workstation, and nothing reads the images for you. Only Chromium on a desktop computer has been tried.
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Who it serves and what it solves
Centres whose images live on discs and drives
Each study belongs to a patient's chart, its files are stored privately, and they are opened only inside the app by signed-in staff.
Assistants who register studies and add the files
Register the study (modality, body part, date, who ordered it, who performed it) and upload the files. An assistant can do all of this but cannot write or sign the report.
The doctor who reports
Open the images in the viewer and write the report under fixed headings. A signed version is never edited; a correction is an amendment with a written reason, and every version stays in the history.
Owners who worry about the wrong patient's images
A person chooses the patient. A name written inside a DICOM file never links the file to anyone: if it does not match the chart, staff see a warning and a doctor must confirm the file.
A realistic day
The study is registered
The owner, a doctor or an assistant chooses the patient from the chart and picks the modality (radiography, digital radiography, mammography, CT, MRI, ultrasound, angiography, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine, PET, photograph or other). They write the body part (for example chest or left knee), the study date and a description, and may link the visit and name who ordered and who performed it.
The files are added
DICOM files, PNG and JPEG pictures are uploaded to the study, up to 200 per study. The file type is decided from the bytes, not from the name. Files go to private storage only, count against the plan's storage allowance, and are never given a public address.
The identity is checked
The patient name and ID written inside a DICOM file are compared with the chart. If they do not match, staff see a warning on the file. The images of that file cannot be released to the patient until a doctor confirms that the file is this patient's.
The doctor views the images
The viewer shows the files as stored, with window and level, zoom, pan, frame scrolling for multi-frame files and invert, all reachable from the keyboard. A file the viewer cannot decode is kept and shows a clear message with a link to download the original.
The report is drafted and signed
Only a doctor starts the report. It has five headings: clinical information, technique, findings, impression and recommendations. A draft is visible to staff only; signing needs findings, records who signed and when, and locks the files of the study.
The report is released
A doctor releases the signed version to the patient portal, under imaging reports. Images are offered to the patient only if the owner has allowed it for the centre and the doctor chose it for that release. Drafts and replaced versions are never shown.
A correction is an amendment
A doctor amends a signed report with a written reason. It becomes a new version, the old one stays in the history marked as replaced, and the new version is not visible to the patient until a doctor releases it.
Who does what
- Reception
- Accounts with the reception role cannot open imaging. Staff who register studies and upload files need the assistant role.
- Practitioner
- Views the images, writes, signs, amends and releases reports, confirms a file's identity, and can remove a file or cancel a study that has no signed report.
- Cashier
- Has no access to imaging.
- Owner
- Registers studies and uploads, removes files, cancels studies, and holds the switch that lets doctors release images to patients. Cannot sign: that needs a user with the doctor role.
What the product does today
A study per patient: modality, body part, study date, description, optional visit, ordered by and performed by. Another centre's study answers as not found.
Private storage: DICOM, PNG and JPEG only, the type read from the bytes, a clean display name, and no storage address ever sent to the browser. Without private storage the upload is refused and nothing is stored elsewhere.
A built-in viewer for uncompressed and JPEG-baseline DICOM, PNG and JPEG, with a download of the original for anything it cannot show.
Identity protection: the header name never links a file, a mismatch shows a warning to staff, and a doctor confirms before images are released.
Reports from draft to signed to amended: one current version, signed versions that cannot change, an amendment with a reason, and a check that you sign the version you were looking at.
Controlled release to the patient portal, once per version, with images only when the owner's switch and the doctor's choice both say so.
A trail of who registered, uploaded, viewed, downloaded, removed, confirmed, drafted, signed, amended and released, and when.
What a report holds
A report is written under five headings, and each version keeps its own text:
- Clinical information.
- Technique.
- Findings: required before the report can be signed.
- Impression.
- Recommendations.
- For each signed version: who signed and when, the version number, and for an amendment the reason.
Setting up and moving over
What you need before it works
- A private file store connected to your deployment. Until then every upload answers with a clear error and nothing is stored.
- Switch the Imaging module on in Settings, organisation (it is on by default for an organisation registered as an imaging centre).
- Create an assistant account for each person who registers studies and uploads files, and at least one user with the doctor role, because only a doctor can write, sign and release a report.
- Decide whether doctors may release images to patients. The owner's switch is off by default, and a doctor still chooses it report by report.
- Bring images as DICOM, PNG or JPEG files exported from your equipment, and a computer with a Chromium-based browser. On the hosting platform, one upload request is limited to about 4.5 MB, so keep each file under that.
- An existing archive is not imported and there is no link to a PACS. Register studies as they come and upload their exported files.
Limits worth knowing
- No PACS, DICOMweb or modality connection and no modality worklist: files are exported from the equipment and uploaded by a person.
- Not a diagnostic workstation. The viewer does no measurements, annotations, 3D or MPR, comparison of studies or automatic reading of images.
- On the hosting platform a single upload request is limited to about 4.5 MB, so large studies such as CT or MRI series cannot be uploaded through the app today.
- Some DICOM compressions (JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, RLE and others) are stored but not displayed; download the original and open it in another viewer.
- Only Chromium on a desktop computer has been tried, with synthetic files. Safari, Firefox and files from real equipment have not.
- No report templates, no scanners or rooms as bookable resources, no retention or deletion policy (a file can be removed only before signing) and no button to withdraw a release; amend the report instead.
Questions
Can our doctors report on the images inside DrOnlineIQ?
They can open the images in the built-in viewer and write the report next to them. The viewer shows files as stored and is not a diagnostic workstation: no measurements, no 3D and no automatic reading.
Can it connect to our scanner or PACS?
No. There is no PACS, DICOMweb or modality connection. Someone exports the files from the equipment and uploads them to the study.
What if the name inside the DICOM file is not the patient's name?
The study stays attached to the patient a person chose. Staff see a warning on that file, which often appears simply because the equipment wrote the name in Latin letters. A doctor can confirm the file, and unconfirmed files block the release of images.
Does the patient receive the images?
The patient sees a released report in the portal. Images are added only if the owner has switched image release on and the doctor chose it for that release. The files are the centre's own; DICOM files open in a medical image viewer.
How large can a study be?
Today, each file must stay under about 4.5 MB because of the hosting platform's request limit, so large series cannot be uploaded through the app. A study can hold up to 200 files.
Can reception register a study?
Not with the reception role: imaging is open to the owner, doctors and assistants. Give the people who register studies the assistant role.
Can a signed report be changed?
Only by an amendment from a doctor with a written reason. It becomes a new version, the earlier one stays in the history, and the patient sees nothing new until a doctor releases it.
Price
Plans are annual. Prices are read from the same list that checkout uses.
Essential
499,000 IQD
/ year
Professional
699,000 IQD
/ year
Business
1,200,000 IQD
/ year
Enterprise
By agreement
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Create a free 14-day trial account with demonstration data, or ask for a demo. Do not enter real patient data during the trial.
Content last updated: 2026-10-24