Learn more about PACS
Picture Archiving and Communications System, more commonly known as PACS, enables images such as x-rays and scans to be stored electronically and viewed on screens, so that doctors and other health professionals can access the information and compare it with previous images at the touch of a button.
What is PACS?
By delivering more efficient imaging processes, PACS will contribute to the delivery of a maximum 18-week patient journey.
For the past 100 years, film has been almost the exclusive medium for capturing, storing, and displaying radiographic images. Film is a fixed medium with usually only one set of images available.
PACS technology allows for a near filmless process, with all of the flexibility of digital systems. It also removes all the costs associated with hard film and releases valuable space currently used for storage.
Most importantly, however, PACS has the potential to transform patients' experience of the care they receive across the NHS.
PACS supports clinicians in performing their roles and contributes to a more efficient and advanced twenty-first century health service.
Find out more
- What makes PACS different? - Find out what PACS is improving, across the board.
- What does PACS mean for me? - Discover the benefits for patients, radiologists, radiographers, hospital consultants (non-radiology) and hospital managers.
