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Article: A season of change: one of the nation's most respected, well-established medical universities prepares to institute the next step in their PACS development--persona-based displays.(PACS/Diagnostic Imaging)
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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For nearly a century, there was little change in the complex processes and procedures to develop, handle, transport and store hard-copy X-ray films.
Automation and manufacturing advances increased the speed of the film processing. However, at its core, it remained a chemical process. Even in the past decade, the stations at which hard-copy films could be viewed also went relatively unchanged--basically, a simple light box with no zoom or rotation capabilities.
Then, seemingly overnight, PACS arrived to supplant that technology, displacing tried and true methods with digital systems to examine and archive medical images. The new technology revolutionized ...