“…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.…”