PACS:
1. n. (acronym) Picture Archiving and Communications System.
A device or group of devices and associated network components designed to store and retrieve medical images.
2. n. (acronym) Pain And Constant Suffering.
Sunday, August 09, 2015
MGH Still Uses Old AMICAS!
Look familiar? This is a screen-shot from AMICAS PACS, circa 2005. That would be about 10 years ago.
But I just had a flash of deja vu...While watching tonight's episode of Save My Life on ABC, filmed at Mass General, I very briefly spotted a PACS client of this vintage...Here is the screen-shot (actually taken from last week's episode...yes, that is a severed hand, which was successfully reattached):
I knew AMICAS PACS had been used as an overlay to IMPAX at MGH, put in place back when IMPAX couldn't handle multi-slice scans.
Apparently, a 10-year-old AMICAS system is good enough for Mass General. Maybe that's because after 10 years, it still works. Unlike, well, need I say it?
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