Work flow redesign: The key to success when using PACS

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 164-168

  Siegel, Eliot L ^a   Reiner, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Nanticoke Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

COST REDUCTION; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WORK FLOW REDESIGN;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0041344544     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-002-6006-9     Document Type: Article

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