Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for medical application

Meyer‐Ebrecht, D.

doi:10.1016/0020-7101(94)90061-2

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“…This includes hardware, software, technology and IT, and communication of PACS [20]. For example, it should have new services (digital image filing and image management), nonphysical image transport (networking), the changing work environment (digital image workstations), and lastly, it should be integrated with health information system [5]. Data base management system (DBMS) of PACS has the following capabilities:…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Information Security Needs in Radiological Information Systems—an Insight on State Hospitals of Iran, 2012

Farhadi¹,

Ahmadi

2013

J Digit Imaging

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Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) was originally developed for radiology services over 20 years ago to capture medical images electronically. Medical diagnosis methods are based on images such as clinical radiographs, ultrasounds, CT scans, MRIs, or other imaging modalities. Information obtained from these images is correlated with patient information. So with regards to the important role of PACS in hospitals, we aimed to evaluate the PACS and survey the information security needed in the Radiological Information system. First, we surveyed the different aspects of PACS that should be in any health organizations based on Department of Health standards and prepared checklists for assessing the PACS in different hospitals. Second, we surveyed the security controls that should be implemented in PACS. Checklists reliability is affirmed by professors of Tehran Science University. Then, the final data are inputted in SPSS software and analyzed. The results indicate that PACS in hospitals can transfer patient demographic information but they do not show route of information. These systems are not open source. They don't use XML-based standard and HL7 standard for exchanging the data. They do not use DS digital signature. They use passwords and the user can correct or change the medical information. PACS can detect alternation rendered. The survey of results demonstrates that PACS in all hospitals has the same features. These systems have the patient demographic data but they do not have suitable flexibility to interface network or taking reports. For the privacy of PACS in all hospitals, there were passwords for users and the system could show the changes that have been made; but there was no water making or digital signature for the users.

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“…Other information such as disease reports has to be established and an access mechanism has to allow combinations of information to make a better diagnosis. Complete and accurate data of images can help clinicians to use them in more applicable ways [5].…”

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The Information Security Needs in Radiological Information Systems—an Insight on State Hospitals of Iran, 2012

Farhadi¹,

Ahmadi

2013

J Digit Imaging

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“…The PACS and RIS functions should be integrated into a single workstation obviating the need for multiple separate computers. The use of touch screens or even voice as input can further facilitate workstation operation [40,41].…”

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“…If information relevant for further processing (e. g. slice position of CT or MR images) is stored in undocumented shadow groups, this information may no longer be available after transfer of images to a DI-COM device from a different manufacturer. One reason why manufacturers favor proprietary formats for image storage is that reading and writing images in DI-COM format is relatively slow [40]. Some manufacturers even continue to use non-or pre-DICOM communication standards between its modalities and workstations with a special gateway to the outside DICOM world, as does Siemens by using its old PACSNET protocol, which is still based on the ACR-NEMA 2 specifications, for image communication in the SIENET PACS (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany).…”

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PACS: the silent revolution

Bick

Lenzen

1999

European Radiology

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More than 15 years ago the idea of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and a filmless hospital was created. In a PACS environment images are acquired, read, communicated and stored digitally. After many years of unsuccessful attempts and prototype installations, the necessary hardware components for a successful PACS installation are now readily available. However, software development is still lagging behind. Only very recently, software developers have realized that it is not sufficient for PACS software to store, communicate and display images, but that PACS software should effectively support the radiologist in the task of interpreting and communicating imaging findings through context-dependent default display arrangements, work-flow management, radiological and hospital information systems integration, and computer-assisted diagnosis. This review examines hard- and software requirements for efficient PACS operation, analyses costs and benefits, and discusses future developments.

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“…Finally, we comment on the influence of LAN capacity on the integration of images into the total HIS, because the capacity problem of LAN in the PACS has been a subject of discussion in the past [15,16]. As mentioned in section 3.1, we installed an ATM-LAN assuming a future increase in the number of image acquisition equipment and image viewing terminal PCs (IVT-PCs).…”

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Integration of medical images into the total hospital information system-experiences at Kochi Medical School

Kurihara

Okuhara²,

Narita³

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Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Ful

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Since 1989, the integration of medical images into the total hospital information system (HIS) at Kochi Medical School has been investigated. The developed system was put into practice in August 1997 after a test run was conducted between October 1995 and July 1997. The basic concept of the integration is that doctors can retrieve and view images same as the textual data of lab exams on the desktop personal computers (PC) used to operate the total HIS. During the realization process of the integration we found that several conditions should be satisfied in order to make the integrated system effective and attractive for doctors. Particular attention was paid to the processing time required to acquire images from the image database system using the image viewing station. The image access time should be at least less than a half minute. After making various improvements, very fast image accessing was realized. However, the final system still has three problems: quality of the image display, operation of multi-exams and quality assurance of the digital image.

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Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for medical application

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

The Information Security Needs in Radiological Information Systems—an Insight on State Hospitals of Iran, 2012

The Information Security Needs in Radiological Information Systems—an Insight on State Hospitals of Iran, 2012

PACS: the silent revolution

Integration of medical images into the total hospital information system-experiences at Kochi Medical School

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