EXTENSION OF PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON THE BASE OF SOA

The paper presents an extension of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The additional components are Expert and Clinical Council which involves remote practitioners for improving diagnosis and clinical care of the patient. SOA technology facilitates extending and modifying the system by constructing new services based on existing ones. The extended system can be used in distributed medical practice and is aimed at setting high-quality diagnosis in short term.