Canada's health care is almost filmless

摘要

Care system will be filmless by the end of 2010, according to Dave Wilson, vice-president of Agfa HealthCare Canada, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group. "If you look at the Canadian marketplace for PACS and radiology, we are pretty much on the leading edge for saturation from a hospital perspective," he said.rnPACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) replaces medical images on film with digital computer generated images that are stored on a computer. Benefits include allowing medical staff to manipulate images, access images remotely, share files immediately with other hospitals and reduce loss or misplacement.