title: Critical success factors for a hospital-wide PACS.
abstract: Since 1996 a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) is installed at the university hospital of Freiburg. The PACS is integrated in the hospital information system (HIS) and several modalities of different vendors are attached to it. During the implementation phase three critical factors to the success of our PACS installation where identified: the support of the workflow, the interface of the radiological information system (RIS) to the modalities, and the security policy to allow hospital-wide access to the images and results in the PACS.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Med. Informatics, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schrader
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kotter
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pelikan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zaiss
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Timmermann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klar
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D005858:Germany; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000379:methods; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D018511:Systems Integration