Implementation of a major hardware and software upgrade in a hospital-wide PACS during clinical use

The aim of this project was to implement the installation of a major hardware and software upgrade into the Hammersmith hospital-wide PACS without any loss of data and with minimum disruption to the continuing clinical service throughout the hospital. The extant 40 Gbyte RAID was replaced by a new 256 Gbyte centralized RAID short term storage (STS) device at the hub of the Hammersmith Hospital PACS. This change entailed a complete database transfer, as well as hardware and software conversions to each of the 168 PACS workstations in the hospital.© (1998) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.