title: PACS bypass: a semi-automated routing solution to enable filmless operations when PACS fails.
abstract: In the filmless imaging department, an integrated imaging and reporting system is only as strong as its weakest link. An outage or downtime of a key segment, such as the Picture Archive Communications System (PACS), is a significant threat to efficient workflow, quality of image interpretation, ordering clinician's review, and ultimately patient care. A multidisciplinary team (including physicists, technologists, radiologists, operations, and IT) developed a backup system to provide business continuity (i.e., quality control, interpretation, reporting, and clinician access) during an extended outage of the main departmental PACS.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Informatics Lab, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Langer.steve@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Steve G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: Chris P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Naveen S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Murthy
authors.forename: Todd L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: French
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rubin
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057188:Workflow