Talk:Picture archiving and communication system

Someone

Someone wanted support for the assertion that Andre Duerinckx coined "PACS". The ImagingEconomics link at the bottom counts Duerinckx as a pioneer in PACS, so it sounds reasonable. JFW | T@lk 00:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

It turns out there is some disagreement as to who came up with the term. I have sent Dr Duerinckx (http://www.duerinckx.com/) an email to find out when he used the term first. But Dwyer apparently credits Dr Prewitt so both need to be mentioned. JFW | T@lk 13:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Dr Duerinckx kindly provided me with the original reference by email. For the sake of WP:NPOV I shall have to leave in the mention of Dr Prewitt. JFW | T@lk 12:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Airport Security

I believe PACS is also used in airport security. Does anyone know enough about this to create a section in the article? Zabdiel 16:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that is the case. PACS is a term related to radiology in health care. I don't think airport security uses radiography, CT, MRI or any other modality on a regular basis. The only application I can think of would be radiography in very select cases such as someone who is suspected of swallowing drugs but then that study would be done in a clinic or hospital of some kind, not at the security checkpoint. Corto 13:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

PACS specifically relates to healthcare and describes a system for long-term storage of images, and the infrastructure to transfer those images to multiple viewing points. This isn't what you need for airport security - for security purposes all you need is a real-time image display (of baggage). If there's a problem it can be acted on immediately by physically examining the baggage.

Fluoroscopy (real-time X-ray imaging) is used ubiquitously for screening baggage at airports. A new development has been the installation of industrial CT scanners for more thorough baggage examination.ChumpusRex 16:27, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Consideration

This is all very interesing... But of course PACS systems are used in security! I don't believe we need any source for that, it's a fact airport security systems are using digital radiography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_machine#How_They_Work and therefore PACS systems.

I will not go into details about the technology they use, fluroscopy has been mentionned before, though I would think this would need to be demonstrated.

--Nicolas Couture (talk) 14:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. PACS has a very specific meaning in the healthcare context. A digital radiography system is not a PACS, nor is a simple image store, nor a network with such equipment attached; there are a lot of medical imaging networks that are not PACS systems. The key criteria being that a PACS system must have a long-term, or permanent, archive of all images, that it provides a single point of access for all images in an institution, and that it must file each image along with all the information needed to link it to associated images in a searchable form.

For instance, a digital radiography system with its own limited internal database, linked to a single proprietary viewing terminal over a network, is emphatically not a PACS system.

While the term PACS is ubiquitous within healthcare, I have never heard the term in industrial usage, nor have I seen it in any literature. I therefore think it inappropriate that non-healthcare uses are mentioned in the article, unless it is possible to demonstrate the usage of the term "PACS" in these fields with appropriate references.

--ChumpusRex (talk) 16:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

A PACS Vendor (Guardian Technologies) signs a contract for its PinPoint product for Airport Security http://sec.edgar-online.com/2007/04/09/0001349905-07-000021/Section17.asp, here is their product page for their "PinPoint" software: http://www.guardiantechintl.com/security.php?npage=pinpoint . I have contacted the vendor of PinPoint and asked for specific information about the product. --74.210.81.219 (talk) 13:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Just my opinion, but a single SEC filing may not necessarily be "critical mass" for referencing broad multi-industry trends in Wikipedia. In any case, the contents of this first link only mention PACS strictly in the context of healthcare, and the company's long-term desire to enter that market with their (to date) pre-PACS product. The text in the second link (guardiantechintl) contains no specific reference to PACS.

A note regarding edit by 87.194.157.28

For reference, that IP is mine (i.e. static), and I made that edit before I had an account. Feel free to delete this note.

--Elrebrin (talk) 14:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Greeting from Cape Canaveral

Hello, I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm writing white papers on the migration of medical imaging to the cloud based systems. I would like to add some parts of my findings to enhance articles here at Wikipedia. I welcome you adding your insights to this growing trend. --Ourhistory153 (talk) 16:04, 11 November 2011 (UTC)