Short lessons
Study one workflow, standard, or decision at a time.
Open · Imaging informatics
Understand how imaging informatics works.
Work through 80 lessons on DICOM, clinical workflows, systems, operations, and certification topics. Each lesson includes questions and a recall prompt.
Who it is for
See the whole field more clearly.
For imaging professionals, healthcare IT staff, vendor teams, and operations specialists who know one part of the system and want to understand the rest.
Original practice
Check your reasoning and see why an answer holds up.
Sample lessons
Start with a full lesson.
Each one is a complete lesson from the course, with its sources and practice questions.
Who does what in DICOM?
Separate the object, service, and role in a device-to-device interaction.
Follow a C-STORE operation
Trace a composite SOP Instance from Storage SCU to Storage SCP.
Choose the right healthcare standard
Distinguish image exchange, event messaging, resources, and terminology bindings.
Import outside imaging safely
Reconcile imported content with the correct patient, procedure information, and media source.
Diagnose problems and root causes
Document what happened, the event sequence, involved assets, direct factors, and underlying root cause.
Find where to start
See which modules to study first.
Answer 25 questions drawn from the 10 modules below. Your result shows how you did in each module and links to it. You don't need an account or an email address.
Take the readiness check →Hands-on labs
Follow along on your own computer.
Free PACS on your laptop
Run Orthanc, load a public, de-identified CT study, and open it in a browser viewer. The video walks you through the lab; the files and commands are on GitHub.
Send DICOM to a PACS
Check the connection with echoscu, send a public, de-identified CT study to Orthanc with storescu, and open it in a browser viewer. The video walks you through the lab; the files and commands are on GitHub.
Curriculum
What the course covers.
Explore the work around medical imaging systems, from technical foundations to daily operations.
Clinical Engineering
Connect modalities, DICOM services, display quality, and clinical safety.
Medical Imaging Informatics
Understand the systems, standards, and decisions that shape imaging informatics.
Image Management
Control images from acquisition through interpretation, exchange, and archive.
Information Technology
Build the storage, network, compute, identity, and data foundation.
Systems Management
Plan capacity, testing, continuity, incidents, migrations, security, and privacy.
Operations
Run measurable, controlled, compliant, and supported imaging operations.
Communications
Communicate clinical meaning, system change, and operational impact clearly.
Training and Education
Design training from task analysis through measured performance.
Project Management
Plan, run, report, and close imaging informatics projects.
Procurement
Move from a justified need to a controlled vendor agreement.
All 10 modules, 80 lessons, and 300 questions. The full course is 49.00 EUR for 12 months of access.
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This course is not official certification material.