title: Picture archiving and communication systems: it's not features that count but the ability to convince.
abstract: The Dutch Government wants to curb the cost of Health Care. Running as high as 10% of the National Income, there is every reason for support. Imaging professionals, like radiologists, are vital for the discovery of disease in society. They need expensive equipment, not only to satisfy their professional pride but foremost to try to discover disease early and before having to put money into treatment of disease that is needlessly advanced and really beyond cure. Personal-PACS is not only cheap, it also makes X-ray departments much more efficient and gives radiologists a better image. The amazing thing, however, is that it proves to be the perfect tool to convince colleagues as well as decision makers.
authors.affiliation: Radiologist, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Holland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ploem
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008838:Microcomputers; D009426:Netherlands; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software