Abstract: A method and system for in use in diagnosing or monitoring a bone or joint condition in a patient are disclosed. In practicing the method, there is obtained at one site, a digitized, radiographic image of a bone. This image is entered in the image section of a DICOM compliant file also containing a patient-data section. At the same or a different site, bone-analysis software is applied to the digitized radiographic image, to obtain data relating to such bone condition, and this data is entered into the patient-data section of the DICOM file. One or both of the DICOM sections can be accessed at the same site or a site that is remote from one or both of above sites. In addition, a bone-analysis software may be installed in a server and applied to analyze the digitized radiographic image to obtain resulting data. The data may be sent out as a link or a report file.