Development And Operational Evaluation Of PACS Network At Georgetown University

SPIE Medical Imaging 50th anniversary: history of the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Conference

“…Multiple institutions shared their PACS implementation experiences including the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington University at St. Louis Mallinckrodt Institute, Kyoto University Japan, Victoria Hospital Canada, Toshiba Corporation, and the US Army. 124 – 135 The ACR-NEMA Standard Committee that included representatives from academia and industry (eg, Philips Medical Systems; Picker Medical Systems; NEMA; Siemens Medical Systems, US; New York University; Bio-Imaging Research, Inc.; Reality Technologies; Digital Equipment Corp; Veteran’s Administration Medical Center) reported on updates, and implementations using the standard were described. 136 – 140 Several papers detailed image archiving, 141 – 146 and two papers discussed the important concept of interfacing hospital information systems and/or radiology operations/information systems with PACS.…”

A global project for the assessment of a PACS system

“…Main issues taken into account are [5]: costs of equipment, personnel, materials and archiving; dependence of such parameters on time required to perform actions; analysis of trend of diagnostic imaging examinations (digital vs. analog).…”