Finals | PPT 3 FUNDAMENTAL PACS ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Question 1

4 major ingredients in the PACS infrastructure design concept

Answer 1

I. INDUSTRY STANDARDS
II. CONNECTIVITY AND OPEN ARCHITECTURE
III. RELIABILITY
IV. SECURITY

Question 2

Minimize the need of customized software

Answer 2

INDUSTRY STANDARDS

Question 3

Increases the portability of the system to other computer platforms

Answer 3

INDUSTRY STANDARDS

Question 4

For example, the following industry standards, protocols, computer operating systems, programming languages, workflow profiles should be used in the PACS infrastructure design:

Answer 4

(1) UNIX operating system
(2) WINDOWS NT/XP operating system
(3) C and C++ programming languages
(4) Java programming language platform (Just Another Vague Acronym)
(5) XML
(6) SQL
(7) X WINDOW platform
(8) TCP/IP communication protocols
(9) DICOM standard
(10) HL7
(11) IHE
(12) ASCII text representation

Question 5

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for data representation and exchange on the World Wide Web

Answer 5

XML (extensible markup language)

Question 6

INDUSTRY STANDARDS as the database query
language

Answer 6

SQL (structured query language)

Question 7

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for graphical user interface (GUI)

Answer 7

X WINDOW platform

Question 8

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for image data format and communication

Answer 8

DICOM standard

Question 9

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for healthcare database information and textual data format exchange

Answer 9

HL7 (Health Level 7)

Question 10

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for workflow profiles

Answer 10

IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise)

Question 11

INDUSTRY STANDARDS for message passing

Answer 11

ASCII text representation