Image Transfer within the Hospital: Developments and Experiences

At the Department of Radiology of the University of Graz a PACS has been installed and is used in daily routine. This PACS is interfaced with a RIS. Our experiences show that one of the most urgent clinical interest in PACS is not the reporting on the diagnostic console, but the image transfer to clinical departments where they are not available or only with time delays. Therefore we provide the decentralised access to the images within the PACS and activate the image transfer to the end users of the diagnostic information.