Abstract
When PACS started gaining popularity in the late 1990s, they instantly proved a very important concept: there is no physical limit on how far computer networks can transfer digital medical data. Surprisingly, it took several years to realize that this concept could become a powerful tool in rebuilding the entire medical workflow, creating practices that previously could only be the stuff of dreams. For too long, PACS users, developers, and administrators were much more preoccupied with imaging rather than networking. As a result, the road to making medicine truly “tele”, or distance-independent, took a few interesting turns before returning to the PACS domain. Its history is worth a quick look.
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(2008). DICOM and Teleradiology. In: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74571-6_13
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