<title>PACS implementation experiences: from in-house to partnership to advisory board</title>

Abstract

The concept of PACS was initiated in I 982 during the First International Conference and Workshop on Picture Archiving and Communication System, held in Newport Beach, California, January 1982, sponsored by SPIE. During the past seventeen years, many large and small PAC systems have been installed and are running smoothly. Around the world, many more systems will be planned and installed for years to come. This paper describes the author's personal PACS implementation experience including in-house development, partnership with manufacturers, and participation as a member of the advisory board in both the hospital and the manufactures. In the latter case, three examples are described for a very large urban hospital, a small community hospital, and a PACS manufacturer in the Far East. Lessons learned from each case are given.

SPIE Medical Imaging 50th anniversary: history of the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Conference

“…At the Medical Imaging 2000 “PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues” conference held in San Diego, CA and chaired by G James Blaine and Eliot L. Siegel, several PACS visionaries shared their experiences with PACS development and clinical implementations. These included a history of PACS presented by Samuel J Dwyer III; 412 Heinze Lemke’s look at PACS in Europe; 413 Guenther Gell’s review of the radiological PACS at the University of Graz, Austria; 414 HK Bernie Huang’s experiences at UCLA and UCSF; 415 Eliot Siegel’s review of PACS adoption at the Department of Veterans Affairs; 416 Anna Chacko’s description of PACS implementation at the Department of Defense; 417 David Channin’s experience with PACS at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; 418 and Hee-Joung Kim’s review of PACS at Yonsei University Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry in Seoul, South Korea. 419 Compression was a big topic as image volume and examination size continued to increase.…”