Eric T.T. Wong

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...

In the age of increasing reliance on data and the importance of sensitive information, applications and technologies have arisen to appropriately deal with assuring the security...

The basic hypothesis forwarded in this chapter is that a major cause for VPN failure is managerial, and therefore controllable and potentially avoidable. Although today’s...

Like other information systems in banking and commercial companies, information security is also an important issue in the health care industry. It is a common problem to have...

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...

Picture archiving and communications system (PACS) is a filmless and computerized method of communicating and storing medical image data such as computed radiographic, digital...

The protection of information for a healthcare organization, in any form, while in storage, processing, or transport, from being available to any organization or person that is...

PACS disasters can, and do, appear in a variety of forms including storage hard disk failure, file corruption, network breakdown, and server malfunction. The PACS disasters are...

Fundamental to ISO 27000 (ISO/IEC 27001:2005, 2005) is the concept of an information security management system (ISMS). The information security management system (ISMS) is the...

Filmless hospital is transforming at an unprecedented rate. Physicians, nurses, clinicians, pharmacists, radiologists, emergency departments, local doctor’s offices, operating...

More rapidly than any technological advance in medical history, filmless hospital is changing the clinical and business aspects of radiology practice by delivering substantial...

A PACS has tremendous benefits (Bryan, Weatherburn, Watkins, Buxton, 1999) and values outside of radiology as well as internally. The biggest benefit derived from a PACS is...

As PACS gains widespread use, the importance of Quality Control (QC), Quality Assurance (QA), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in PACS is rising. The purpose of QC/QA is to...

A large number of studies have attempted to identify the factors that contribute to good PACS quality, such as that shown by Reiner et al (2003). Results from these studies...

During the early development phase of PACS, its implementation was mainly a matter of the radiology department. This is changing rapidly, and PACS planning is increasingly seen...

Nowadays it is hard to think of any applications in modern society in which electronic systems do not play a significant role. In aerospace and aviation, defence...

There are some medical errors for which preventability is rarely questioned. These include medical errors such as wrong site surgery, wrong procedure, wrong patient operations...

Economically speaking, it is interesting to see that over the years, the question as to whether PACS is cost-justifiable has not been easier to answer. The early work at the...

Human factors engineering (HFE) is the science of designing systems to fit human capabilities and limitations. These include limitations in perception, cognition, and physical...

The present study advocates the application of statistical process control (SPC) as a performance monitoring tool for a PACS. The objective of statistical process control (SPC)...

To illustrate the benefits of implementing QM in PACS, a successful case based on the Six Sigma approach is given below. It involves a project aiming at the 2005 Hong Kong...

Today’s filmless radiology through PACS provides greater speed and superior image quality. However, when workflow is encumbered by inefficiencies, the benefit to the organization...

Teleradiology is a routine practice for radiologists to make urgent diagnosis by remote viewing radiological images such as computed tomographic (CT), magnetic resonance (MR)...

Radiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radiation. It is often used in X-rays in the diagnosis and treatment of a...

Like other information systems in banking and commercial companies, information security is also an important issue in the healthcare industry. It is a common problem to have...

Teleradiology is the technology of remote medical consultation using X-ray, Computed Tomographic or Magnetic Resonance images. It was commonly accepted by clinicians for its...

Tele-radiology is the technology of remote medical consultation using X-ray, computed tomographic, or magnetic resonance images. It was commonly accepted by clinicians for its...

Like other information systems in banking and commercial companies, information security is also an important issue in the healthcare industry. It is a common problem to have...

Radiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radiation. It is often used in X-rays in the diagnosis and treatment of a...

The potential benefits of e-commerce have been reported widely in the literature, and e-learning has been gradually accepted as a social tool for e-commerce at tertiary...