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Radiology is a diagnostic service which utilizes images to display disease. These images are interpreted by radiologists, who pass the diagnostic information on to the physician that takes care of the patient. How information acquired in the practice of radiology is processed, stored, displayed, reported and transmitted to the referring physician is an application of medical informatics. The two management systems involved in this process are (1) The Radiology Infomations Management System (RIMS) which has a variety of essential management and control functions, and (2) The Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) which implies the management of digital images. Each system is computer based, and when tightly integrated the two comprise the communications structure of the totally digital department. (1) The title of this conference, “Pictorial Information Systems” could imply the PACS concept, but in reality the presentations are broader, covering computer science and informatics in medical imaging. Pictorial information systems had their origin with the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen in November 1895. |
