finals informatics Flashcards
how a process done step by step
workflow
what is pacs
picture archiving and communication system
image management system that acquires, stores, forward, manipulates and display images.
PACS
Image that presented to the radiologist on film.
Hard Copy
All digital images are interpreted from presentation on a digital device
Soft Copy
4 Principle Components of PACS
- Image Acquisition System
- The Display Network
- The Network
- The Storage System
Image Devices that acquire images from the patient.
Image Acquisition
Computer used to view a digital image.
The Display Image
This requires that each workstation must interact with each other imaging system and central imaging
The Network
The amount of storage necessary depends on the modality or modalities served by the PACS and on the workload.
The Storage System
DICOM stands for?
DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATION IN MEDICINE
Universally accepted standard for exchanging medical images among the modality.
DICOM
Any computer that Health care worker uses to view a digital image.
Display Workstations
file room of the PACS
archive server
used by a radiologist when making a primary diagnosis
Radiologist reading stations
Step down model of the radiologist reading station
physician review stations
may be used to look up examination for a physician or to print copies of images for the patient to take to an outside physician
file room/image management stations
can be defined as a place where record are documents are preserved
archive
contains the master database of everything that is in archive.
image manager
consist of the physical storage device of the archive system
image storage or archive server
RAID
redundant array of independent disks
chosen for many reasons, including system need, cost, and system compatibility.
Archive Consideration
company that provide outsourcing of archiving and management functions for a pay-per-month
Application service provider
involve making copies of each tape or disc
disaster recovery
many healthcare organizations are opting to purchase storage from various vendors for images storage across the organization
cloud storage
imagers also known as?
film printers
use chemical to process the film that has been exposed to the laser
wet imagers
use heat to process the latent image
dry imagers
the ability to. print just in case thePACS goes down is one of the most often heard explanations
back up
