Trends in PACS image storage and archive

Liu, B.J.; Cao, Fei; Zhou, Michael Z.; Mogel, Greg T.; Documet, Luis

doi:10.1016/s0895-6111(02)00090-3

Cited by 51 publications

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“…The economical aspect is, however, one of the criteria when considering whether to go into the ASP solution. The benefits of [1][2][3][4][8][9][10][11][12]. One of the most common arguments to choose ASP is that archiving is not the core business of health care delivery entities.…”

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ASP archiving solution of regional HUSpacs

2004

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The application service provider (ASP) model is not novel, but widely used in several non-health care-related business areas. In this article, ASP is described as a potential solution for long-term and back-up archiving of the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS). HUSpacs is a regional PACS for 21 HUS hospitals serving altogether 1.4 million citizens. The ultimate goal of this study was to define the specifications for the ASP archiving service and to compare different commercial options for archiving solutions (costs derived by unofficial requests for proposal): in-house PACS components, the regional ASP concept and the hospital-based ASP concept. In conclusion, the large scale of the HUS installation enables a cost-effective regional ASP archiving, resulting in a four to five times more economical solution than hospital-based ASP.

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ASP archiving solution of regional HUSpacs

2004

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“…While a detailed examination of PACS archive architectures is beyond the scope of this work (see instead, for example, [20][21][22]), selected aspects of this topic are quite relevant to the integration of advanced visualization tools with primary PACS viewers. In particular, communications protocols and storage resource allocation are two key factors considered here.…”

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Five Levels of PACS Modularity: Integrating 3D and Other Advanced Visualization Tools

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The current array of PACS products and 3D visualization tools presents a wide range of options for applying advanced visualization methods in clinical radiology. The emergence of server-based rendering techniques creates new opportunities for raising the level of clinical image review. However, best-of-breed implementations of core PACS technology, volumetric image navigation, and application-specific 3D packages will, in general, be supplied by different vendors. Integration issues should be carefully considered before deploying such systems. This work presents a classification scheme describing five tiers of PACS modularity and integration with advanced visualization tools, with the goals of characterizing current options for such integration, providing an approach for evaluating such systems, and discussing possible future architectures. These five levels of increasing PACS modularity begin with what was until recently the dominant model for integrating advanced visualization into the clinical radiologist's workflow, consisting of a dedicated stand-alone post-processing workstation in the reading room. Introduction of context-sharing, thin clients using server-based rendering, archive integration, and user-level application hosting at successive levels of the hierarchy lead to a modularized imaging architecture, which promotes user interface integration, resource efficiency, system performance, supportability, and flexibility. These technical factors and system metrics are discussed in the context of the proposed five-level classification scheme.

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“…Each replacement of an archiving medium implicates a migration of all data that are less than 30 years old. This involves considerable efforts and costs [16,17].…”

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Systems integration in the operating room: the challenge of the decade

et al. 2005

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In the past 50 years the equipment of operating rooms has changed enormously due to technological innovation and new surgery methods. In particular the establishment of minimally invasive therapy has led to a considerable increase in equipment and instruments that have to be used during surgery. The development of new equipment and instruments has had priority over the past 10-15 years, whereas now the manifold different equipment require systems integration and networking. Systems integration and networking of different OR (operating room) system components are very important current technological challenges in operative medicine. While certain technologies like robotic and navigation are still in the early stages, image documentation is an excellent starting point for systems integration because of the advanced development stage and the need for all operative disciplines. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tübingen in Germany (UFK) is delving into systems integration and networking in the operating room. In addition to the central control and monitoring of different systems, operating tables and lighting, the image documentation of intraoperative results is a principal topic. The UFK project is part of the Center of Competence for Minimally Invasive Medicine and Technology Tübingen-Tuttlingen (MITT), which is promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This article presents the importance and potential of systems integration and networking in health care, the current stage of development and future trends, considering image documentation as an example.

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Trends in PACS image storage and archive

Cited by 51 publications

References 5 publications

ASP archiving solution of regional HUSpacs

ASP archiving solution of regional HUSpacs

Five Levels of PACS Modularity: Integrating 3D and Other Advanced Visualization Tools

Systems integration in the operating room: the challenge of the decade

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