Economic impact of off-line PC viewer for private folder management

Koun-Sik Song; Myung Jin Shin; Joo Hee Lee; Yong Ho Auh

doi:10.1117/12.352775

18 July 1999 Economic impact of off-line PC viewer for private folder management

Koun-Sik Song, Myung Jin Shin, Joo Hee Lee, Yong Ho Auh

Proceedings Volume 3662, Medical Imaging 1999: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.352775
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We developed a PC-based clinical workstation and implemented at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, Hardwares used were Pentium-II, 8M video memory, 64-128 MB RAM, 19 inch color monitor, and 10/100Mbps network adaptor. One of the unique features of this workstation is management tool for folders reside both in PACS short-term storage unit and local hard disk. Users can copy the entire study or part of the study to local hard disk, removable storages, or CD recorder. Even the images in private folders in PACS short-term storage can be copied to local storage devices. All images are saved as DICOM 3.0 file format with 2:1 lossless compression. We compared the prices of copy films and storage medias considering the possible savings of expensive PACS short- term storage and network traffic. Price savings of copy film is most remarkable in MR exam. Price savings arising from minimal use of short-term unit was 50,000 dollars. It as hard to calculate the price savings arising from the network usage. Off-line PC viewer is a cost-effective way of handling private folder management under the PACS environment.

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Koun-Sik Song, Myung Jin Shin, Joo Hee Lee, and Yong Ho Auh "Economic impact of off-line PC viewer for private folder management", Proc. SPIE 3662, Medical Imaging 1999: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, (18 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.352775

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