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[quote=Anonymous]I’m venting for sure but at the same time questions. And if you know the answer to my question, would you share with us? TKIA.

We were just told at the Doctors office, their machine (whatever that is) can’t read the CD we brought back from oversea. They said the format is different that the server isn’t reading the image. Therefore, X-ray needs to be retaken. 
That’s so unnecessary, the sort of problem we wanted to avoid and the reason why we brought back the CD.
So, became curious why doesn’t the medical field make the image format universal to minimize unnecessary retake?  
Google search suggests, one can read the CD in the regular computer/laptop.  Had we known this prior to the office visit, we will try to test that. But, we were in 100% belief the Doctor office would be able to read them. Never ever thought about the incompatible format issue. 
Not to mention, MRI in the states is super tedious for us to schedule and the $$$$cost.  We, the patient, want to bring good images from oversea (we just happened to run into the circumstances which allowed us to get MRI within 5 days and relatively cheap).

Incomparable format? This region has substantial foreign born residents and cannot imagine none of them take images oversea and bring it back to the states. All of them run into same issue (unable to read, huh?!!)? What machine (?)would they need to read the foreign generated image? Any workaround?

Thank you.[/quote]

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