What Is PACS and How Does It Work?
The use of PACS medical imaging lessens the need for manually filing, preserving, accessing, and transferring sensitive documents, images, and reports. Medical records and images can instead be securely kept on remote servers and made virtually available from anywhere in the world using PACS software, computers, and mobile devices. PACS: What Is It? You may be familiar with the word PACS but unaware of what it means. It is what it sounds like—a picture archiving and communications system (PACS). This system records images and reports electronically, replacing the old method of physically filing, accessing, and transferring film jackets, which are used to keep X-ray film. Who Utilizes PACS? Since radiologists have historically created the majority of X-ray pictures, they have primarily used Teleradiology PACS . However, other fields, such as cardiology, oncology, pathology, dermatology, and nuclear medicine imaging, have started to employ PACS technology.