Imaging CDs - Stories from the front lines.

What are you doing with Imaging CDs?

This section of the website we call PACS feedback. This is where we will be asking our readers to share their experiences with the PACS community on various topics that PACS Administrators experience in their daily work.

We will evaluate what is important to PACS Administrators and make those topics open to discussion here. Learn how seasoned veterans are handling the topics that could be affecting your daily activities.

Our topics will change based on the number of responses we receive on a particular subject. Highly active subjects can stay open for a month while less active subjects will only be up for a week or two.

The current topic open for contribution is the use of medical images on CDs and how you handle them within your daily workflow.

Tell the PACS Administrator community how you handle images on CD's at your facility. If your facility has implemented PACS you are undoubtedly receiving medical images on CD from other locations. IT is a highly contested topic, whether these images should become a part of your PACS or they should remain separate. Share your thoughts with us.

Click below to see the wide range of policies and procedures being submitted to us by our readers.

The Radiologists Determine Whether a CD is Imported or Not 
I am the Chief PACS Administrator for a health system comprising of 3 hospitals, 6 imaging centers, and 3 orthopedic clinics. We have set a system-wide ...

Import only 'active' patient images into PACS 
We only import outside CD's if the patient is active in our RIS. We created an outside film "exam" study in our RIS, it has a zero dollar amount attached ...

Outside Studies Loaded From CD into PACS as Needed  Not rated yet
Exams are loaded as needed for comparison to a current (similar) study or at the specific request of the provider.
Resources to do this are scarce and ...

A maximum of three prior studies unless otherwise agreed.  Not rated yet
We have made it policy to import a maximum of three prior studies unless otherwise agreed. we were getting in the situation where a dr would bring multiple ...

Importing CD's.....for now.  Not rated yet
We are currently importing images into our PACS
We use a work station to modify patient information prior to sending to PACS ie PACS id #
We have started ...

No CD importing at all  Not rated yet
We have a non-networked computer that is used for viewing all outside images.

Import CD's only when requested by the doctors.  Not rated yet
We import CD's only when requested by the doc, and then mark them Reference Only, which insures we are not saving these into our deep archive. We create ...

A 14 day limit for images on a CD to be stored in PACS  Not rated yet
When requested by physician (only when requested though) I will import a study onto the PACS in which it is stored for 14 days. After 14 days, I go back ...

Unknown PACS Administrator  Not rated yet
We currently import all CD's that are received into our outpatient imaging facility. We store these images on the PACS just like all the other digital ...

Leslie from Ohio  Not rated yet
The current process is to import outside CDs when requested. The CD is identified as outside studies. These studies are not stored in the long term storage ...