Picture Archiving and Communication Systems..

Digging up my closet, searching for a poster I came across a rare relic that never used to leave my pocket, my Walk-men. The progress has been so, that walk-men shifted to disc-men and now we have the revolutionary Ipods with us.  Who knew one day that listening to music would be this easy and would also accompany the pleasure of viewing whatever one can listen. Progress in print media has also seen a substantial change. Where people resort to e-books these days; documents, reports and statistical files all can be accessed and soft-copied.

Medical reports and conditions with pictorial representations have been made readily available to people and health care organizations over a wide variety of subjects is made possible with the use of PACS.  PACS stand for Pictorial Archiving and Communication systems. The basic idea is to store, archive medical conditions and access them at any instant. A distributed workforce delivering efficient workflow with a comprehensive solution, all done in a web based portal is the sole idea behind PACS. To make this work, Digtial Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DIGICOM)  is the platform that PACS make use of. 

Remote sensing is the aspect that helps practitioners diagnose and give proper knowledge to people seeking information all around the globe. This makes viewing of subjects and conducting of tests possible for professionals because at the end of the day the mind does not know what the eye does not see. By- Shahzad

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PACS healthcare-a new vista to advanced medical imaging.

Images, in medical diagnosis, are of utmost importance in this era. They speak volumes about the condition of the patient. And so, it is imperative that one also develops on the storage and retrieval methods of these images. Gone are the days of traditional film-based medical imaging and storage. PACS is here- a new addition to the arsenal of advanced health-care services provided to the common man. A PACS is a form of medical imagery, the technology being utilised to efficiently store and allow ease of access to images or other similar documents from a large set of origin systems. 

There are four components of a PACS; there are source applications for medical imaging, a robust networking system, workstations and most importantly, the online archives where data is stored and retrieved from. Now, if the PACS healthcare is merged with the advanced web tech of the recent era, this form of healthcare service will not only eliminate the time and distance barriers, usually attributed to traditional films of images, but will also be efficient enough to provide correct and real-time imagery when needed. It is working wonders. 

The PACS is ably developed to operate on images of different sources, with the likes of the ultrasound imaging, MRI images, nuclear medicinal images, PET and CT scan images, mammograms, histopathology et cetera. New image extensions are being included to make sure that operations can be performed on them too.The shift from the traditional and cumbersome film-based image processing to this new futuristic concept has brought up cost-related issues, but then, everything in life comes at a price, doesn’t it? By - Rounak Bose