HLST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Medical Imaging, Wide Area Network, Digital Radiography
15 Jun 2017
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Society for imaging informatics in medicine (siim) is the study and application of processes of information and communications technology for the acquisition, manipulation, analysis and distribution of medical image data. 1. Picture archiving and communication systems (pacs): is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage of, and convenient access to, images from multiple modalities. Importantly, with the increasing use of electronic health records (ehrs), there is a need to integrate pacs with ehrs, hospital information systems (hiss) and radiology information systems (riss). Pacs is made possible by faster processors, higher capacity disk drives, higher resolution monitors, more robust hospital information systems, better servers and faster network speeds. Pacs is also frequently integrated with voice recognition systems to expedite report turnaround. Pacs usually has a central server that serves as the image repository and multiple client computers linked with a local or wide area network. Images are stored using the dicom data standard.
