title: The heart of PACS. While most CIOs feel secure taking on the challenge of traditional radiology-focused PACS, cardiology PACS is another story.
abstract: In terms of both workflow and the type of specialty care involved, cardiology PACS is inherently more complex and challenging than radiology PACS. Very few organizations have gotten beyond some initial work in automating the collection of data from one or a few different clinical processes. Even at this early phase of development, it's clear that clinician workflow and efficiency can be dramatically improved by cardiology PACS implementation. Enterprise-wide image and data storage, retrieval, and sharing capability across cardiology, radiology, and other specialties, is where hospital organizations are headed, though the path is a long and difficult one.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hagland
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008331:Management Information Systems; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States