Patients
PACS transforms a patient’s experience of the care they receive in a number of ways.
These include:
- not having to carry packets of film around the hospital and between sites during the course of their care pathway
- less waiting to receive results
- a speedier move to the next point of treatment or discharge
- fewer appointments wasted and operations postponed because of non-availability of images as a result of lost or poor quality images
- less re-testing and, therefore, lower radiation dosage
- potentially quicker discharge from hospital and better care planning resulting from easier access to images and test results