Glossary · Imaging
PACS
Picture Archiving and Communication System
A PACS is the system that stores and displays medical images in DICOM format and delivers them to radiologists and clinicians for reading.
It receives images from the scanners, keeps them for years and serves them to viewers; the order and report text usually live in the RIS, not in the PACS.
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