title: A hospital-wide PACS: 7 year experience and new development.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan. sterae@radi.med.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Terae
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyasaka
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shirato
mesh_terms: 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