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PACS is an acronym for the Picture Archiving and Communication
System. It is the process of replacing the roles of conventional
radiological film, according to the National Library of Medicine,
and can be used to view images at any location in a hospital.
The AFGA IMPAX 6.3 PACS is a client-server-based system used by
the Navy. The images can be viewed on any desktop in the
hospital, but details will show better with special monitors. Any
physician in the network can load images such as X-rays, CAT
scans, or ultrasounds. You can use many features of this system
on the desktop, such as zooming in and out on the images. You
can also measure the size of objects and have the ability to mark
up the images for notes the doctor wants to place.
Benefits of a PACS system include rapid retrieval of images for
reviewing and comparing with past images, and they can be web-
based so multiple hospitals in a network can have access to them
immediately. These two are very beneficial because PACS allows
on-hand information and progress or the lack thereof in scans for
immediate comparison, as well as if a patient was transferred
from a swing bed hospital emergency room to a medical bed in its
sister hospital the scans would be readily available when the
transfer was initiated for the admitting doctor to review.
The biggest issues that the textbook discusses about a PACS
system relate to cost and networking. For example, the bandwidth
limit of a hospital's current internet system could not be quick
enough to retrieve data from a PACS or be slower to
download/upload the images. So, a networking upgrade could be
required. Also, the new legislation is cutting reimbursement rates
for certain radiological procedures, which decreases the profit a
hospital will earn for that test and the budget for the PACS. This
would limit which PACS was affordable to the hospital, and it may
not be the most reliable one.
Strickland, N. H. (2000, July).
PACS (picture archiving and Communication
Systems): Filmless Radiology
. Archives of disease in childhood.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1718393/#:~:text=A
%20picture%20archiving%20and%20communication,roles%20of
%20conventional%20radiological%20film.
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