Kay Siercks, Head of IT

The PACS developments of the past few years have been primarily focused on the needs of radiology or radiological imaging. In this regard digital diagnosing and archiving are of primary importance; these will be amortized through the reduction of film costs. From the very beginning, Augusta Hospital Bochum together with VISUS Co. has been innovative and also has included the imaging procedures of other departments in the PACS concept.

 

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MD Christoph Labisch, Private Radiology Herne
Andreas Jacoby, Ev. Hospital group Herne 

In radiological diagnostics it becomes more and more important to provide findings in real time to image acquisistion - not only in the hospital but also in the doctors´ practice where the patient is waiting for his/her radiographs and findings to bring to his/her GP. In a film-based radiology the doctor has to make a decision: he is either giving the patient the radiographs to take with them and later on has to duplicate the scans to provide findings which leads to higher costs. Or he finds the scans right afterwards which leads to longer waiting times for patients.

 

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