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Someone wanted support for the assertion that Andre Duerinckx coined "PACS". The ImagingEconomics link at the bottom counts Duerinckx as a pioneer in PACS, so it sounds reasonable. JFW | T@lk 00:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Dr Duerinckx kindly provided me with the original reference by email. For the sake of WP:NPOV I shall have to leave in the mention of Dr Prewitt. JFW | T@lk 12:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I believe PACS is also used in airport security. Does anyone know enough about this to create a section in the article? Zabdiel 16:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
This is all very interesing... But of course PACS systems are used in security! I don't believe we need any source for that, it's a fact airport security systems are using digital radiography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_machine#How_They_Work and therefore PACS systems.
I will not go into details about the technology they use, fluroscopy has been mentionned before, though I would think this would need to be demonstrated.
-- Nicolas Couture ( talk) 14:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. PACS has a very specific meaning in the healthcare context. A digital radiography system is not a PACS, nor is a simple image store, nor a network with such equipment attached; there are a lot of medical imaging networks that are not PACS systems. The key criteria being that a PACS system must have a long-term, or permanent, archive of all images, that it provides a single point of access for all images in an institution, and that it must file each image along with all the information needed to link it to associated images in a searchable form.
For instance, a digital radiography system with its own limited internal database, linked to a single proprietary viewing terminal over a network, is emphatically not a PACS system.
While the term PACS is ubiquitous within healthcare, I have never heard the term in industrial usage, nor have I seen it in any literature. I therefore think it inappropriate that non-healthcare uses are mentioned in the article, unless it is possible to demonstrate the usage of the term "PACS" in these fields with appropriate references.
-- ChumpusRex ( talk) 16:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
A PACS Vendor (Guardian Technologies) signs a contract for its PinPoint product for Airport Security
http://sec.edgar-online.com/2007/04/09/0001349905-07-000021/Section17.asp, here is their product page for their "PinPoint" software:
http://www.guardiantechintl.com/security.php?npage=pinpoint . I have contacted the vendor of PinPoint and asked for specific information about the product.
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74.210.81.219 (
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Just my opinion, but a single SEC filing may not necessarily be "critical mass" for referencing broad multi-industry trends in Wikipedia. In any case, the contents of this first link only mention PACS strictly in the context of healthcare, and the company's long-term desire to enter that market with their (to date) pre-PACS product. The text in the second link (guardiantechintl) contains no specific reference to PACS.
For reference, that IP is mine (i.e. static), and I made that edit before I had an account. Feel free to delete this note.
-- Elrebrin ( talk) 14:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm writing white papers on the migration of medical imaging to the cloud based systems. I would like to add some parts of my findings to enhance articles here at Wikipedia. I welcome you adding your insights to this growing trend. -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:04, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
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Someone wanted support for the assertion that Andre Duerinckx coined "PACS". The ImagingEconomics link at the bottom counts Duerinckx as a pioneer in PACS, so it sounds reasonable. JFW | T@lk 00:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Dr Duerinckx kindly provided me with the original reference by email. For the sake of WP:NPOV I shall have to leave in the mention of Dr Prewitt. JFW | T@lk 12:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I believe PACS is also used in airport security. Does anyone know enough about this to create a section in the article? Zabdiel 16:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
This is all very interesing... But of course PACS systems are used in security! I don't believe we need any source for that, it's a fact airport security systems are using digital radiography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_machine#How_They_Work and therefore PACS systems.
I will not go into details about the technology they use, fluroscopy has been mentionned before, though I would think this would need to be demonstrated.
-- Nicolas Couture ( talk) 14:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. PACS has a very specific meaning in the healthcare context. A digital radiography system is not a PACS, nor is a simple image store, nor a network with such equipment attached; there are a lot of medical imaging networks that are not PACS systems. The key criteria being that a PACS system must have a long-term, or permanent, archive of all images, that it provides a single point of access for all images in an institution, and that it must file each image along with all the information needed to link it to associated images in a searchable form.
For instance, a digital radiography system with its own limited internal database, linked to a single proprietary viewing terminal over a network, is emphatically not a PACS system.
While the term PACS is ubiquitous within healthcare, I have never heard the term in industrial usage, nor have I seen it in any literature. I therefore think it inappropriate that non-healthcare uses are mentioned in the article, unless it is possible to demonstrate the usage of the term "PACS" in these fields with appropriate references.
-- ChumpusRex ( talk) 16:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
A PACS Vendor (Guardian Technologies) signs a contract for its PinPoint product for Airport Security
http://sec.edgar-online.com/2007/04/09/0001349905-07-000021/Section17.asp, here is their product page for their "PinPoint" software:
http://www.guardiantechintl.com/security.php?npage=pinpoint . I have contacted the vendor of PinPoint and asked for specific information about the product.
--
74.210.81.219 (
talk) 13:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Just my opinion, but a single SEC filing may not necessarily be "critical mass" for referencing broad multi-industry trends in Wikipedia. In any case, the contents of this first link only mention PACS strictly in the context of healthcare, and the company's long-term desire to enter that market with their (to date) pre-PACS product. The text in the second link (guardiantechintl) contains no specific reference to PACS.
For reference, that IP is mine (i.e. static), and I made that edit before I had an account. Feel free to delete this note.
-- Elrebrin ( talk) 14:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm writing white papers on the migration of medical imaging to the cloud based systems. I would like to add some parts of my findings to enhance articles here at Wikipedia. I welcome you adding your insights to this growing trend. -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:04, 11 November 2011 (UTC)