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Developing a Multi-Institutional PACS Archive and Designing Processes to Manage the Shift from a Film to a Digital-Based Archive

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The Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC) works to improve the standards of care in treating cancer by improving the quality of clinical trials medicine. QARC operates as a data management and review center providing quality assurance services for multiple external groups including cooperative groups and pharmaceutical companies. As the medical world migrates from analog film to digital files, QARC has developed an innovative and unique digital imaging management system to accommodate this trend. As QARC acquires electronic data from institutions across six continents, the system is continually developed to accommodate Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) imaging originating from a wide variety of Picture Archival and Communications System (PACS) manufacturers, thus creating one of the largest and most diverse multi-institutional imaging archives in the cancer research community.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) grants U10 CA29511 and U10 CA98543.

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  1. UMASS Medical School, Quality Assurance Review Center, Providence, RI, USA

    Nicole K. Laprise, Richard Hanusik & T. J. FitzGerald

  2. UMass Memorial Healthcare Systems, Radiation Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    T. J. FitzGerald

  3. Radiology, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Keith S. White

  4. Quality Assurance Review Center, 272 West Exchange Street, Suite 101, Providence, RI, 02903-1025, USA

    Nicole K. Laprise & Nancy Rosen

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Laprise, N.K., Hanusik, R., FitzGerald, T.J. et al. Developing a Multi-Institutional PACS Archive and Designing Processes to Manage the Shift from a Film to a Digital-Based Archive. J Digit Imaging 22, 15–24 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-007-9080-1

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