Digital imaging arrives
PACS arrived at Vienna General during the early 1990s. The first system, supplied by Siemens Medical Solutions, was subsequently replaced with an Agfa Impax PACS in 2000. The project took six to seven months of preparation and another six to seven months for installation. It has been in clinical operation for approximately 16 months to date.
Three hospital departments are connected to the PACS:
- radiology (including all five subdepartments)
- emergency
- radiotherapy
A total of 41 modalities are linked to the PACS at present (28 from radiology, four from emergency, and nine from radiotherapy). This includes just one ultrasound scanner and one digital mammography unit.
The system hardware currently comprises:
- PACS broker (60-GB RAID)
- workflow manager (WFM) server for radiotherapy (260-GB RAID)
- two WFM servers for radiology (1120-GB and 220-GB RAID)
- WFM server for emergency (100-GB RAID)
- database server (200-GB RAID)
- Web server (275-GB RAID)
- jukebox for data storage on magnetic optical disks (2.6 TB, 5.6 TB compressed)
- jukebox for data storage on tape (13.86 TB, 27.72 TB compressed)
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