Should the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Settings Be Standardized? Questionnaire Survey for Safe Medical Image Management

Takumi Tanikawa; Ayako Yagahara; Akihisa Fukuda; Daisuke Ando; Tatsuya Suzuki; Kouhei Harada; Shuichi Karata; Masahito Uesugi

doi:10.3233/SHTI190749

Should the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Settings Be Standardized? Questionnaire Survey for Safe Medical Image Management

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1990-1991. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190749.

Authors

Takumi Tanikawa¹, Ayako Yagahara¹, Akihisa Fukuda², Daisuke Ando³, Tatsuya Suzuki⁴, Kouhei Harada⁵, Shuichi Karata⁶, Masahito Uesugi⁷

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University of Science, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
² Department of Radiology, Hokkaido Medical Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
³ Department of Radiological Technology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁴ Department of Radiological Technology, Asahikawa Medical University Hospital, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁵ Department of Radiological Technology, Sapporo Medical University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁶ J-MAC SYSTEM Inc, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁷ Department of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan.

PMID: 31438443
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI190749

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to record the differences in picture archiving and communication system (PACS) settings in hospitals. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 261 hospitals that used the PACS system in Japan. As a result, the image deletion method in the PACS server, and other rules were different among hospitals. Furthermore, these variations were dependent on settings of each medical institution. It seemed necessary to define standardized rules for safe image management.

Keywords: Data Curation; Picture Archiving and Communication System; Surveys and Questionnaires.

MeSH terms

Computers
Information Management
Japan
Radiology Information Systems*
Surveys and Questionnaires