title: Understanding PACS development in context: the case of China.
abstract: This paper describes the evolution of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in China and identifies several obstacles to its development, including vendors' opportunism, hospital administrators' IT ignorance, mindlessness in IT adoption, lack of system integration, and misfits between foreign PACS and local hospitals. Lessons learned from these obstacles are provided, which are of value to developing countries where PACS has just started diffusing.
authors.affiliation: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. yxue@fau.edu
authors.forename: Yajiong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Huigang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000639:trends*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000639:trends*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000639:trends*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000639:trends*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000639:trends*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000639:trends*