Introduction
Radiology Information System The standard for organizing and exchanging medical imaging data is called Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM). DICOM is a file format for storing pictures as well as a mechanism for sending them. The DICOM protocol is used by medical imaging equipment to connect with the application server. At a workstation in an office or clinic, clinicians may then find and see the desired image.
The Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is a medical imaging technology that is mostly utilized in healthcare organizations for the safe storage and digital transmission of clinically important reports and electronic pictures. Sensitive data, films, and medical reports no longer need to be manually filed, stored, retrieved, and sent thanks to PACS. Instead, utilizing PACS software, workstations, and mobile devices, medical records and pictures may be safely stored on on-site or off-site servers and viewed from any location in the globe.
As the amount of digital medical pictures in the healthcare sector increases and data analytics of those images becomes more common, medical imaging storage solutions like PACS become more and more important. PACS stores and transmits pictures using the DICOM standard.