[conqueso]

It is a big problem. It's unrealistic to expect patients to have access to a DVD ROM drive, let alone the know-how to use any of the software mentioned

[danielheath]

Learning to accurately read more than "clean break through an arm" typically takes about 15 years (6 years of medical school, 6 years of radiology school, and fresh graduate radiologists are neither quick nor particularly accurate compared to those who have been working for 3 years).

Software is the least of your problems.

[solardev]

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.

[nmeagent]

I honestly don't understand why it's unrealistic to require a DVD drive when one can often buy a USB unit for less than the price of a decent dinner.

[getcrunk]

yea it was easy for me to figure out as well, but I am not the average person. My parent or sibling wouldnt be able to have done it.

[twelve40]

yeah thanks to Mr Cook for example, if you're on a Mac, no dice.

that said, tfa, while encouraging, has no details as to how this all can possibly happen.

[Kwpolska]

Mr Cook? How many modern consumer Windows laptops have a DVD drive?

[renewiltord]

I just got an external DVD reader and it worked just fine on my M1 mac