dwv VS miele-lxiv

Yes! The UI for displaying binary data (PDF's, images, medical imaging, etc) is still being actively developed, but DICOM support is on the list. I was considering using the popular ivmartel/dwv library for displaying DICOM images.

The DVD drive, yeah, that's annoying, but the portable ones exist. And the DVD has its own (Windows only) self-installing viewer thing.

Web viewers exist too: https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/

Not to say it's great UX, but it's really not that hard to solve compared to the rest of the mess of the medical industry.

It's a bureaucratic nightmare thing, not a software challenge.

Is it really that big a problem? Yeah the DVD is annoying, but once you get it, DICOM is easily viewable, with free and/or open source softare...

https://github.com/bettar/miele-lxiv

https://horosproject.org/about/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luolai.dro...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idv-imaios-dicom-viewer/id1444...

> But we still aren't very close to being able to see X-rays on our phones.

Actually, last time I had such an injury, I copied the files from the DVD to my phone and just showed all the doctors exactly that... x-rays and CAT scans on my phone, all using free apps. Similar viewers exist for Mac and Windows too. It works fine and the image format is a lot more powerful than JPEG, letting you scan between depths (or reconstruct a 3D model from individual slices), etc.