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PACS: Spreading good health through great image management

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Lynn Savage, Features Editor, [email protected]

The concept behind a picture archiving 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 –...Read full article

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    Published: February 2010
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