PACS: Diminishing The Distance And Enabling The Real-Time Services In Teleradiology
The pandemic time has unveiled a plethora of opportunities and brought in a paradigm shift in work culture – Remote Working, driven by technology. This has enabled the continuation of services irrespective of location and time without compromising the quality-of-service delivery. But this remote working is not a new concept in Radiology . Many radiologists have been supporting the clinicians irrespective of their location and time through teleradiology and delivering quality patient care without delay. Teleradiology , identified with remote working is actually vibrant, spontaneous, and into real-time work. All this is possible because of PACS. PACS – Picture Archiving and Communication System; a system involved in acquiring the medical images, transmission, viewing, storage, and retrieval of same images. Basically, PACS is an electronic version of the file room and reading room for radiologists. PACS works as a host that integrates the radiological images acquired from different r