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| View Larger Image | PACS: A Guide to the Digital Revolution
by Keith J. Dreyer, David S. Hirschorn, James H. Thrall, Amit Mehta
| | List Price: | $104.00 | | Price: | $83.91 | | You Save: | $20.09 (19%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 86714 | | Studio: | Springer | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 579 | | Publication Date: | November 17, 2005 | | Publisher: | Springer |
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Product Description
"PACS: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Second Edition," is a textbook of modern information sciences that fills an incredible need in the blossoming field of radiology. The emphasis is on a review of technological developments associated with the transition of radiology departments to filmless environments. As leaders in the field of computerized medical imaging, the editors and contributors provide insight into emerging technologies for physicians, administrators, and other interested groups. Each chapter addresses key topics in current literature with regard to the generation, transfer, interpretation, and distribution of images to the medical enterprise. This new edition has been updated to present recent developments in PACS, including: 1. An overview of the latest medical imaging standards; 2. A discussion of security issues as they relate to PACS, especially regarding HIPAA; 3. An introduction to current information on PACS workstations, including the impact of new software and hardware on radiologists; 4. An updated explanation of data storage and compression that highlights how advancements are applied; 5. A section on how PACS influences research and education, emphasizing how both educators and trainees are affected. Since health care organizations throughout the world are generating filmless implementation strategies, this exhaustive review is valued as a vital aid to leaders in the development of health care. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)
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Excellent Resource for IT Support 
As a healthcare IT Systems integrator, I found this book to be an excellent overview of the concepts, terminology, workflow and standards involved in PACS & RIS.
It is readable, illustrated and understadnable. It does not drone on in esoteric concepte, but addresses PACS in practical, relevant ways.
February 28, 2008 | |
Excellent all-purpose reference!
The articles included in this edition present a solid picture of PACS from the ground up, with an organizational point of view, which can be understood from an IT to a clinical perspective or from a clinical to an IT perspective. Many thanks!
June 08, 2007 | |
Very skimpy on DICOM, HL7. 
This review is for the second edition.
I think this book would be very useful for a radiologist or clinical applications specialist who wants an overview of issues to consider when undertaking a PACS implementation. However, DICOM seems to be a very important component of any PACS system, as well as HL7 - but both were barely mentioned, except in passing, in this book.
I actually bought the book on the basis of another person's review where he went through each of the chapters he found useful, and one of those chapters was DICOM. He must have had a different version of this book, because I read it from cover to cover and could not find a chapter dedicated to DICOM. The most I found was a small section on pages 190 - 192 (in the image acquisition chapter) which gives a short history of DICOM but no in-depth details. The paragraph on page 425 (the PACS workstation software chapter), where the author provides information about freeware and shareware DICOM image viewing and manipulating software, is useful.
Interestingly, the most information that can be had about HL7 in this book can be found in the voice recognition chapter...hmmmm.
My bottom line is that if you want a decent *overview* of the whole subject of PACS, this book could be useful, but if you're looking for DICOM or HL7 details, look elsewhere (and if you find a good source of info on these subjects, please let me know at garycolwill@hotmail.com - thanks!)
May 25, 2006 | |
Contributing Author's Remarks 
As a contributing author in this book, I wanted to share some of my comments and remarks. I think Editors did a great job soliciting well known experts in their field to contribute in this book (I am probably the least known - hehe). I think this book provides a very comprehensive review of the topic and I recommend this for anyone thinking about implementing radiology IT systems or currently managing radiology IT systems.
One of the items I found missing in the book was discussion on "Reporting". Although the book does discuss voice recognition in detail, but does not address other reporting methods in digital environment and IT issues related to reporting and report delivery.
Information on HIPAA is slightly dated as lot has changed since these chapters were solicited in 2004. I also found some minor editorial errors (that hopefully will be corrected at second printing).
Another big change that has occured since these chapters were written is the introduction of 64 slice MDCT and Dual Source CT scanners. These scanners have created new and unique issues for radiology IT and PACS due to the enormous amount of data generated by these scanners. These scanners have a great impact on storage, connectivity, interpretation and radiology workflow.
Overall an excellent review of issues related to Radiology IT and PACS.
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January 26, 2006 | |
Great up-to-date information and easy to read.
I am a radiologist with an interest computer technology. I have hands-on experience with computing but little formal IT education. I've bought most of the other books on PACS from various authors but liked the first edition of the Dreyer book the best, so I thought I'd give this second edition a try.
This recently released edition has many interesting new topics and considerable updates from the topics cover in the first. It's basically a whole new book. Fortunately they have preserved the easy-to-understand, yet, excellently detailed style from the first edition.
If you're a radiologist, technologist or IT person interested in learning more about radiology IT, I highly recommend this book.
Regards,
Charles R.
January 02, 2006 | |
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