DICOM

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the global standard for managing, storing, and transmitting medical images. For PHP developers, experience with DICOM is a highly sought-after skill in the HealthTech industry, particularly for companies developing medical imaging software.

Developing Medical Imaging Applications with PHP

PHP is used to build the server-side logic for web-based Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), DICOM viewers, and other clinical platforms. A developer's role is to create robust, secure, and performant backends that can handle the parsing, storage, and retrieval of large and complex DICOM files.

Core Responsibilities

• Building APIs to upload, query, and serve DICOM files to web or mobile clients.
• Developing systems to extract and index metadata from DICOM headers for searching.
• Integrating PHP applications with existing DICOM servers and medical imaging hardware.
• Ensuring all data handling is compliant with privacy and security regulations like HIPAA.

Key Skills and Tools

Proficiency in PHP and a modern framework is required, alongside a deep understanding of the DICOM standard itself. Experience with specialized libraries for handling DICOM data in PHP, as well as expertise in database management for large binary objects, is also critical.