The PACS Admin Blog

This is a site for new and experienced PACS Administrators. My primary goal is to share with you the events that occur in the life of a PACS Administrator.

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Aug 19, 2008, Outside Studies Loaded From CD into PACS as Needed

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

Aug 16, 2008, 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

Aug 14, 2008, A maximum of three prior studies unless otherwise agreed.

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

Jul 20, 2008, DICOM Training for PACS Administrators

DICOM Training - Essential DICOM Tools for PACS Administrators

Jun 11, 2008, 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

Jun 11, 2008, Importing CD's.....for now.

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

Jun 9, 2008, No CD importing at all

We have a non-networked computer that is used for viewing all outside

Jun 4, 2008, Import CD's only when requested by the doctors.

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

May 31, 2008, A 14 day limit for images on a CD to be stored in PACS

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

May 29, 2008, Unknown PACS Administrator

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

May 28, 2008, Leslie from Ohio

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

May 27, 2008, Imaging CDs

What are you doing with your medical imaging CDs? Tell the PACS Administrator community your process.

May 24, 2008, PACS Training

PACS Training - options for the begining PACS Administrator

May 18, 2008, SIIM 2008 Day 3

Summary of SIIM 2008 Day 3

May 17, 2008, SIIM 2008 Day 2

Summary of SIIM 2008 Day 2

May 15, 2008, SIIM 2008 Day 1

Summary of SIIM 2008 Day 1

May 10, 2008, Suspect PACS Websites - Let the reader beware.

A comment about Suspect PACS Websites. Original Content Please!

May 9, 2008, The PACS Administrator Forum

The PACS Administrator Forum

Apr 18, 2008, The radiology image QA program - considerations.

Basics of a radiology image QA program.

Apr 12, 2008, PACS Certification

A discussion of the two types of PACS certification available today.