PACS bypass: A semi-automated routing solution to enable filmless operations when PACS fails

Steve G. Langer; Chris P. Wood; Naveen S. Murthy; Todd L. French; Mike Rubin

doi:10.1007/s10278-011-9446-2

PACS bypass: A semi-automated routing solution to enable filmless operations when PACS fails

Steve G. Langer, Chris P. Wood, Naveen S. Murthy, Todd L. French, Mike Rubin

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In the filmless imaging department, an integrated imaging and reporting system is only as strong as its weakest link. An outage or downtime of a key segment, such as the Picture Archive Communications System (PACS), is a significant threat to efficient workflow, quality of image interpretation, ordering clinician's review, and ultimately patient care. A multidisciplinary team (including physicists, technologists, radiologists, operations, and IT) developed a backup system to provide business continuity (i.e., quality control, interpretation, reporting, and clinician access) during an extended outage of the main departmental PACS.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	466-470
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Digital Imaging
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9446-2
State	Published - Aug 2012

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Computer hardware
Computer networks
Computers in medicine

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Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Computer Science Applications

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