PACS Group of Kuwait 1st Meeting

PACS Professionals training. Courtesy of Q8PACS  (2008)

" Finally, an official group
for PACS Admins is formed..
It's a place were PACS
Admins can speak out."; PACS Admin said.




On Dec.27th 2010 the first meeting of the PACS group of Kuwait was held at Mubarak Hospital. The group is the official committee formed by Radiology Council. Dr. Salwa AlKanderi head of radiology council announced establishment of this group to re-organize the operation of PACS in Radiology departments and to hear from PACS admins. PACS Group of Kuwait is lead by Dr. Salwa Haidar, a pediatric radiologist at Mubarak hospital and consists of at least one member from each radiology department in MOH hospitals.


In their first meeting, two posts were selected. Saud AlSaif; Senior PACS Admin at Amiri hospital was announced as deputy of the group and Abeer Hajiya; Senior PACS admin at Mubarak hospital at Mubrak Hospital was announced as Group officer.


In that meeting, members introduced themselves to each other and shared some of the problems they are facing in their daily work. 


The discussion about problems was lengthy which shows the amount of issue they are facing. These problems ranged from issues like financial benefits to technical difficulties.For example, mobile phone bill which they have to pay from their own pocket and technical issues like patient image exchange using CD and difficulties referrals are facing to view those images. Moreover, during that meeting a member of the group  brought up a technical issue they are currently facing in their hospital which stunned every body !    That was an issue of a huge image loss in their archive. That hospital lost approximately 12000 images from their Short-term storage and more from their Tape-Library due to tape warn out !!


The meeting was concluded by Dr. Salwa by promising every body to work hard to pass their needs and voices to the radiology council which will eventually take the required action. 






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