Title :
Understanding PACS Development in Context: The Case of China
Author :
Xue, Yajiong ; Liang, Huigang
Author_Institution :
Rhode Island Univ., Kingston, RI
Abstract :
This paper describes the evolution of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in China and identifies several obstacles to its development, including vendors´ opportunism, hospital administrators´ IT ignorance, mindlessness in IT adoption, lack of system integration, and misfits between foreign PACS and local hospitals. Lessons learned from these obstacles are provided, which are of value to developing countries where PACS has just started diffusing
Keywords :
PACS; medical image processing; China; DICOM; PACS development; digital image and communications in medicine; hospital administrator; medical imaging; picture archiving and communication system; Biomedical imaging; DICOM; Digital images; Hospitals; Image storage; Marketing and sales; Material storage; Picture archiving and communication systems; Space technology; Technology management; Developing countries; Digital Image and Communications in Medicine (DICOM); medical imaging; picture archiving and communication systems (PACS); China; Database Management Systems; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Delivery of Health Care; Diagnostic Imaging; Information Storage and Retrieval; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Radiology Information Systems;
Journal_Title :
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TITB.2006.879580
