A hospital-wide PACS: 7 year experience and new development.
Hokkaido university picture archiving and communication system (HU-PACS) began clinical service in the Hokkaido university hospital in 1989. For the first 5 years the service was limited to the radiology department and the outpatient clinics. This paper describes the outline of the HU-PACS, how we have extended the service to all wards and managed the increasing image data accompanied by the installation of new CTs and MRI since 1994. A plan of future HU-PACS is also described.
Terae
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Medical Informatics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan. sterae@radi.med.hokudai.ac.jp
Miyasaka
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Fujita
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Shirato
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed