Future trends in Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

This research investigates the opinions of radiologists regards requirements for improving current Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Responses to a questionnaire were collected from 120 of the 200 radiologists in five governmental hospitals of Kuwait. The study the determines the importance of the solutions for future PACS from the radiologists point of view as: PACS must be integrated with other hospital information systems (100%); there must be multi hospital PACS access across different organizations (99%); web based PACS solutions (97%) and PACS applications in mobile phones (97%) are seen as an improved solution for future PACS. Whereas, the radiologists expressed strong concerns over the barriers for implementing web PACS solutions including: technical issues (91%); lack of training (85%); and cost (76%).