DICOM monitoring with PRTG
Maintain high standards of patient care
- Gain complete visibility into the performance of your DICOM services and workflows
- Proactively detect potential issues and prevent service interruptions
- Keep data safe with SSL encryption, 2048-bit RSA certificates, and other security mechanisms
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PRTG DICOM monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
The picture of health
From radiology and dentistry to ophthalmology, cardiology, and beyond, imaging devices have had an outsize impact on healthcare, improving the speed and accuracy of diagnosis and treatment by orders of magnitude.
The catch is that, just like any other modern technology, it works until it doesn’t.
Which is to say that problems often only become apparent once a device stops working, even though they might have been going on for some time.
With literal lives at stake, extended unplanned downtime isn’t an option in healthcare. And that’s where PRTG comes in.
Our sophisticated DICOM-specific sensors monitor your medical imaging devices’ key performance metrics round the clock, ensuring everything’s working as it should and alerting you when it isn’t.
That means you can pinpoint and fix issues before they turn into serious problems. And, better still, optimize workflows in ways that make radiologists, cardiologists, trauma doctors, nurses, and other patient-facing staff at your organization more effective at what they do: helping people get better and live healthier, happier lives.
PRTG makes DICOM monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualizations make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent low bandwidth, poor availability, slow response times, and other issues with DICOM services.
Reliable data, faster diagnosis, better healthcare: Why Paessler PRTG
End-to-end monitoring
Cardiology. Computed tomography. Dentistry. Magnetic resonance imaging. Mammography. Radiology. X-Ray. You get the picture. Keep a close eye on every DICOM medical imaging device your organization depends on to diagnose and treat patients, optimize workflows, and deliver the highest standards of care.
Built-in alarm system
DICOM devices’ reliability can be a matter of life and death. Literally. PRTG alerts you automatically as soon as there are potential issues that could slow staff down or disrupt their workflows, so you can step in and fix them before they get in the way of timely, effective treatment.
Superior security
Protect DICOM data, including sensitive patient information, from unauthorized access at all times. PRTG comes with robust controls built in, including SSL encryption, 2048-bit RSA certificate, cross-site scripting protection, secure password storage, as well as other mechanisms like automated logout and reauthentication.
Effortless customization
Tailor DICOM sensors — and your monitoring environment — to your exact needs, whether you’re a small clinic or a large healthcare network with hospitals in multiple locations. Define C-FIND query search levels, keys, and fields to filter, the number and interval between C-ECHO requests, and even which DICOM interface ports to use for each connection.
What DICOM monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring servers, routers, switches, CPUs, PDUs, UPSs, fans, and other hardware components and environmental statistics. Show power consumption, CPU load, memory usage, temperature, humidity, and other key metrics that could impact your network's energy efficiency in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot energy usage spikes, overheating, excess humidity, and other issues that could increase your energy bills and cause network malfunctions.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
DICOM C-ECHO
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
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DICOM monitoring, your way
PRTG has three preconfigured sensors for pinpoint-accurate monitoring of all your critical DICOM systems and workflows:
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DICOM Bandwidth sensor, for monitoring how much bandwidth your medical imaging devices' C-STORE requests are using, and whether they can handle the C-STORE REQUESTS
- DICOM C-ECHO sensor. This monitors availability, as well as minimum, maximum, and average response times
- DICOM Query/Retrieve sensor for monitoring C-FIND and MWL capabilities, including minimum, maximum, and average request entry time and total items found,
Our all-in-one monitoring tool supports unlimited local, remote, and virtual devices, which means it's ideal for keeping a close eye on DICOM data in organizations of all shapes and sizes — from small clinics to large hospital campuses.
Your DICOM data at a glance – even on the go
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Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG DICOM monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues such as low bandwidth, poor availability, slow response times, and other issues with DICOM services.
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Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG DICOM monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues such as low bandwidth, poor availability, slow response times, and other issues with DICOM services.
PRTG DICOM monitoring: FAQ
What is DICOM?
DICOM — short for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is an international standard for medical imaging and related data. DICOM makes it easier for medical imaging equipment and systems from different manufacturers to work together, specifies transmission and storage protocols, and makes it possible to integrate imaging devices, workstations, printers, and other hardware into PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems).
What services does the DICOM standard provide?
The DICOM standard is designed to make the storage, retrieval, and exchange of medical images and related data simpler and more straightforward. DICOM services include:
- Print, which standardizes how images from various medical imaging devices should be printed and how such printouts should be presented
- Store, which sets out how images and documents are sent to PACS, including file formats
- Modality worklist. This includes information about the types of medical procedures carried out, including what happened when the image was taken
How does DICOM monitoring improve healthcare workflows and patient care?
Because it gives you a real-time view of your DICOM services' functionality and performance. Which means you can fix issues, prevent downtime, and, ultimately, diagnose and treat patients more quickly and effectively, leading to better outcomes.
PRTG's preconfigured sensors make it possible for you to easily:
- Check that imaging devices, PACS, and clinical workstations are working as they should
- Make sure images and other data is being transferred and stored correctly, in the right file formats
- Verify that doctors and other staff can access patient information quickly and easily
- Detect slow response times, corrupted files, storage failures and other issues, before they become serious
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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Over 95% of our customers say yes!
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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