title: Issues surrounding PACS archiving to external, third-party DICOM archives.
abstract: In larger health care imaging institutions, it is becoming increasingly obvious that separate image archives for every department are not cost effective or scalable. The solution is to have each department's picture archiving communication system (PACS) have only a local cache, and archive to an enterprise archive that drives a universal clinical viewer. It sounds simple, but how many PACS can truly work with a third-party Integration of the Health Care Enterprise Compliant Image Archive? The answer is somewhat disappointing.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55904, USA. langer.steve@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Langer
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States