PACS and Digital Medicine: Essential Principles and Modern Practice

by Yu Liu, Jihong Wang

Overview

To improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs, healthcare providers, insurance companies, and governments are increasingly using integrated electronic health record (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to manage patients' medical information. Reflecting the latest applications of PACS technology, PACS and Digital Med

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040219959
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	367
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About the Author

Yu Liu, Ph.D., DABR, is a senior imaging physicist certified by the American Board of Radiology. He works in the radiology department at St. Luke's Medical Center of Aurora Healthcare in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since 1997, he has been involved in PACS implementation and operation. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Duke University.

Jihong Wang, Ph.D., DABR, is an associate professor at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He implemented the first major PACS system for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas while he was a faculty member there from 1996-2004. He earned his Ph.D. in medical physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Introduction. PACS Servers and Workstations. Imaging Display Devices in PACS. Networking Technologies. Data Storage. Healthcare Information Integration. Teleradiology. Practical PACS Implementation. Upgrade and Replacing Legacy PACS. Enterprise PACS. Electronic Health Record and Personal Health Record Implementation. Quality Control, Security, and Downtime Management. Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

For someone … looking for a concise summary of PACS, its environs (both departmental and enterprise), components, and support issues—this book would be an excellent choice.
—Steve G. Langer, Medical Physics, October 2012

… a thorough and practical reference for radiologists, administrators, engineers, and others who might create, manage, or use such a system. …
—SciTech Book News, February 2011

Editorial Reviews

For someone … looking for a concise summary of PACS, its environs (both departmental and enterprise), components, and support issues—this book would be an excellent choice.
—Steve G. Langer, Medical Physics, October 2012

… a thorough and practical reference for radiologists, administrators, engineers, and others who might create, manage, or use such a system. …
—SciTech Book News, February 2011

From the Publisher