Assessment of picture archiving and communication system (PACS) at three of ministry of health hospitals in Riyadh region – Content analysis

Alalawi, Zainab; Eid, Monief M.; Albarrak, Ahmed I.

doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2016.09.004

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“…Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire that was developed by the researchers based on the review of relevant studies [ 1 , 9 , 15 , 34 ]. This questionnaire consisted of three parts;…”

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“…In this study, more than half of the physicians believed that PACS has no influence on reducing the patients' length of stay at hospital. Despite these results, Al-Alawi's study showed that about two-thirds of PACS users agreed that this system reduces patients' hospital stay [9]. Some studies have investigated the impact of PACS on patient length of stay.…”

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“…This system helps users to change picture display parameters such as quality, zoom, and contrast and to compare pictures through a workstation computer [7,8]. PACS has become an alternative for traditional film-based imaging since the 1980's [1] due to many advantages such as optimizing image quality and their accessibility [3,7,9,10], increasing physicians' productivity and efficiency [3,9], improving the connection between clinical units and radiology department [7], reducing the number of lost images [3], decreasing the time of reports and sending radiology reports [3,11,12], lowering the need to physical space for picture archiving [13], reducing personnel costs and expenses related to films and relevant chemical substances [4,12,14], decreasing the need for re-imaging and patients' exposure to harmful rays [3,14,15], and reducing the average waiting time for patients [9,16,17] Despite the crucial role and advantages of PACS for healthcare centers the implementation and use of these systems have faced some challenges [16]. Therefore the successful implementation of this system should be seriously addressed [18].…”

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Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

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Jabali

Khajouei

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BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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Background: User satisfaction with PACS is considered as one of the important criteria for assessing success in using PACS. The objective of this study was to determine the level of user satisfaction with PACS and to compare its functional features with traditional film-based systems. Methods: This study was conducted in 2017. Residents at three large university hospitals in Kerman filled-out a selfadministered questionnaire consisting of three parts: demographic information of participants, user satisfaction with PACS, comparing features of the two digital and traditional imaging systems. The validity of this questionnaire was approved by five medical informatics, radiology, and health information management specialists and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha (86%). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Spearman, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis statistical tests. Results: The mean of the participants' ages was 31.4 (±4.4) years and 59% of the participants were females. The mean of physicians' satisfaction with PACS' had no significant relationship with their age (P = 0.611), experience of using PACS (P = 0.301), specialty (P = 0.093), and percent of interpretation of images with PACS (P = 0.762). It had a significant relationship with the participants' computer skills (P = 0.022). Conclusions: The mean of physicians' satisfaction with PACS was at a moderate to a high level, yet there are still problems in the successful implementation of these systems and establishing interoperability between them. PACS has not fully met all the demands of physicians and has not achieved its predetermined objectives, such as allaccess from different locations.

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Section: Reducing Hospital-stay Timementioning

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Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

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“…In this study, more than half of the physicians believed that PACS had no influence in reducing the patients' length of stay (LOS) in hospital. Despite these results, Al-Alavi's study showed that about two thirds of PACS users agreed that this system leads to reducing patients' hospital stay [36]. Some studies have reviewed the impact of PACS on the patients' hospital stay time.…”

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Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS)

Abbasi

Jabali

Tadayon

2019

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Background User's satisfaction with PACS is considered as one of the important criteria for assessing success in using PACS. The objective of this study is to determine the level of satisfaction in PACS’ users and also comparing its functional features with traditional film-based systems.Methods This analytical study was conducted in 2017. Residents at three large university hospitals in Kerman city were included. We used self-administered questionnaire that was consisted of three parts include: demographic information, individuals' satisfaction, comparing features of the two digital and traditional imaging systems. Validity of this questionnaire was approved by specialists and its reliability was obtained as 86%. Data analysis was done with using descriptive statistics and after checking the normality of data, data compared with the spearman, the Mann Whitney U and the Kruskal-Wallis statistical tests.Results The mean of the participants' ages 31.4 (± 4.4) years old and approximately 59% of the participants were females. Mean of overall physicians’ satisfaction with PACS' score has no significant relationship (P>0.05) with the variables of age, experience in using PACS, type of specialty, level of interpretation of images using PACS, however it did show a significant relationship with their computer skills (P<0.05).Conclusions The mean for physicians’ satisfaction with PACS was at a moderate to high level, yet there are still problems in successfully implementing these systems and establishing interoperability between them. PACS has not fully met all the demands of physicians and has not achieved its predetermined objectives such as all-access from different locations.

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“…Psychosocial variables such as external communication, service outcome, personal intentions, personal hassles, and increased blame were used in this study to conduct the examination of PACS impact on its users and the study showed that PACS users gave a positive perception toward the PACS and its impact on them and their work routine was also positive. Alalawi, Eid and Albarrak (2016) [11] conducted another survey for the assessment of PACS systems at three hospitals, also in Saudi Arabia, investigating the perceived benefits of PACS among physicians and radiologists, secondly, the perceived challenges of PACS implementation and adoption inside and outside the radiology department, and thirdly, comparing between physicians' and radiologists' perceptions toward PACS. The results of this study concluded that PACS was well perceived among physicians and radiologists but also indicated the main disadvantages of PACS, which were difficulty in finding images, recurrent downtime and insufficient staff training.…”

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Investigation of RIS/PACS Information Systems’ Incorporation in Greek Public Hospitals

Konstantinidis¹,

Apostolakis²

2020

RadOpen

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Purpose: The objective of this study is to assess the current level of Radiological Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) incorporation in greek public hospitals through a national web-based survey. Since there are no previous studies on this field of medical imaging management in Greece, we look forward to export useful conclusions about RIS/PACS incorporation and set the foundation for further investigation. Material and Methods: A comprehensive measurement instrument that integrates the existing theoretical and empirical literature knowledge on Information Systems (IS) evaluation was properly modified and used for the purpose of this study. A web-based survey was conducted via Google Form questionnaire, which was distributed to the entire population of radiologists and radiologic technologists (potential users) of all greek public hospitals (urban and rural), in order to identify the availability of RIS/PACS Information Systems (IS), the level of incorporation through system’s impact on users satisfaction and their operating capacities (i.e. computerized activities and processes). Results: A total of 49 valid responses out of 77 collected questionnaires were received from all 124 greek public hospitals, which represents a response rate of 39.5%. Our very first findings indicate that establishment of RIS/PACS has not been fulfilled so far for the vast majority of greek public hospitals. Almost half of the participants (51%) responded that they use only the capabilities of PACS as a repository for medical images, instead of implementing all capabilities of RIS. Also, although 85.7% of the participants responded that they use disc publisher for medical imaging exams copies, only 6.1% responded that has gone totally filmless or paperless. 59.2% of the respondents has access to 5 or more workstations and 100% of the respondents agrees that ER and clinics should connect on hospital's RIS/PACS for viewing medical images, receiving electronic reports and updating patients' electronic files. Overall findings from statistical techniques demonstrate a statistically significant difference in perceived information (p-value=0.021) and service quality (p-value=0.036) with age of respondents. Finally, open feedback answers indicate that greek public hospitals have still many to set to successfully incorporate and exploit the wide range of RIS/PACS capabilities to improve quality, effectiveness and efficiency of patient care services. Discussions: Although, most of the respondents have an adequate level in the operation of information systems, lack of RIS/PACS usage training is noted, as well as users’ support from their own organization IT staff. Also, structural deficiencies worry system’s users, making them intolerant to adopting the system in daily practice. The recommendations of this study include RIS/PACS incorporation in every medical imaging department of greek hospitals, users training and support, as well as updating infrastructures where needed.

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Assessment of picture archiving and communication system (PACS) at three of ministry of health hospitals in Riyadh region – Content analysis

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

Investigating the satisfaction level of physicians in regards to implementing medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS)

Investigation of RIS/PACS Information Systems’ Incorporation in Greek Public Hospitals

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