The SNUH started a project for the development of a large scale, hospital-integrated PACS in January, 1995, This paper describes the overview of this project and current progress of the development.
The SNUH PACS project has three main goals : to develop a fully hospital-integrated PACSA, to develop a cost effective PACS using open systems architecture, and to extend PACS role to the advanced application such as image guided surgery,
multi-media
assisted education and research. To achieve these goals, a task force team was organized and has been operational, being in charge of the system design, development, installation and integration.
The SNUH PACS is designed to have distributed computing architecture which takes full advantage of ATM communication network, computing power of up-to-date high-end PC, and image processing technique.
Total 27 imaging modalities are to be connected to SNUH PACS via ethir direct DICOM network or in-house developed DICOM gateway, yielding 10 GB of image data a day. The acquired images are distributed to the workstations over the 155 Mbps and 25
Mbps
ATM network. We have implemented PACS workstations using-end PC and windows NT operating system. Diagnostic workstations use 2K line monitors, and clinical workstations use 1.6K line monitors. We are now testing work flow and work flow and
workstation
functionality which our system.
A large scale PACS project is in progress for the development of hospital-integrated PACS in SNUH. Basic modules have been succesfully developed . SNUH PACS is in partial scale now, and will be expanded to full scale by the end of 1998.
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