PACS:Spreading through good health great image Spreading management

摘要

The concept behind a picture archiv-ing and communications system, or PACS, is pretty straightforward: Acquire medical information about a person, including digital images and basic health-related and personal data, and make it all accessible to doctors, hospitals and their staffs at anytime and at any location. Until two decades ago, this was just a pipe dream — and a feverish one at that. Medical imaging primarily comprised analog x-ray scans that were printed on film, then passed among technicians, readers and physicians. If you had more than one doctor helping you with a sore knee —say, a family doctor and an orthopedist —copies of the relevant x-ray images would have to find their way to both.