DICOM is a disaster for patients

I recently had a few different scans of my body and brain done. Hooray for turning 40! At each imaging center I was given a USB drive &ldquo;with my images on them.&rdquo; It turns out those images are in a format called DICOM, and they usually come bundled with some kind of viewer application. These things are a disaster! When you open them, you get to input a password made wholly of…