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The History of PACS: Trivial Facts

The use of PACS data storage and integrated medical image sharing and storage solutions certainly transforms the face of medical institutions and services. Thanks to this marvelous system, diagnostics and treatments can be conducted quickly and accurately. Not only that, the use of medical image sharing solution also enables doctors from all across the country – or even from around the world – to work together in order to tackle unique and complicated medical situations swiftly.

However, not all of you might know the history of PACS itself. The concept of Picture Archiving and Communication System was first introduced in 1982 during a meeting of radiologists. According to world renowned radiologist Dr Samuel Dwyer, it was Dr Judith M. Prewitt who first introduced the term PACS we all know today.

The Hammersmith Hospital in London is the first hospital to apply PACS data storage system so thoroughly that it also became the first filmless hospital in the UK. It was Dr Harold Glass who started the implementation project with the help of granted government funding in the 1990s.

In the United States, University of Kansas is noted as the first institution to implement PACS data storage in a large scale in 1982.

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