Developing a multi-institutional PACS archive and designing processes to manage the shift from a film to a digital-based archive

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-24

  Laprise, Nicole K ^a   Hanusik, Richard ^a   FitzGerald, T J ^a,b   Rosen, Nancy ^a   White, Keith S ^c  

^a Quality Assurance Review Center   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Archive; Clinical trial; Digital image management; Digital imaging; Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM); PACS; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIGITAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM); PACS; WORKFLOW;

ARSENIC; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMMUNICATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FILM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 58849141324     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9080-1     Document Type: Article

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