Design of a Medical Image Management System: A Practical Cost-Effective Approach

摘要

Most developmental efforts in the Medical Image Management System (MIMS) arena have focused either on a personal-computer based, inferior-quality, user-unfriendly version for teleradiology which is achievable today, or on the very expensive, technologically-difficult, user-unfriendly but futuristic all-digital system.This presentation will discuss a practical, cost-effective medium-resolution system for archiving, review and comparison. The design of a MIMS will be considered from three perspectives:[List: see text]A prototype MIMS that is presently serving our Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and undergoing clinical trials will be briefly described. A plan to expand this to a hospital wide MIMS will be presented.