Trends portend eventual blend of cardiology PACS, radiology

September 5, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Trends portend eventual blend of cardiology PACS, radiology Cardiologists begin to confront need for digital report and image management, while IT managers look for unified archiving solutions Douglas Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radiology PACS and cardiology PACS have more in common than the same last name. Similarities include diagnostic workstations, archive infrastructure, DICOM modality work list functionality, web-based distribution, and interfaces to hospital information systems and electronic medical records. CardioPACS require the same multimodality, multivendor connectivity capabilities as do radiology PACS. Both deal with large imaging data sets.

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