Initial data-element selection for the evaluation of picture archiving and communication system performance

Abstract

The completely new, hospital-wide picture archiving and communication system (PACS) now being implemented at Osaka University Hospital is described elsewhere in this issue.1 This paper lists the many studies of the department and hospital that were performed before the PACS for the purpose of identifying data elements for use in evaluating a PACS system. A second purpose of the initial data-element collection was to assist in the overall Osaka University PACS design. Selected studies from this work are presented here. © 1994 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.