A. The preferred setup for managing Ultrasound images is to transmit and view the images in the DICOM stand-ard. Your ultrasound machine should create and transmit DICOM images to your GP practice software system. The images should be stored in the individual patient record as a DICOM image and viewed with a DICOM viewer.
A US company called Butterfly is due to release an ultra-sound machine in 2018 based on an iPhone. It has the potential to change how we think about ultrasound in pri-mary care.