Blog Bibliography .. Q8PACS Second Birthday

Medical Imaging Informatics 2010 (click to enlarge)

Index of most (older to newer) Q8PACS Blogs since it's establishment two years back 

Dubai PACS Seminar

10 things PACS Admin should not do "on Network"

Structured Reporting

Best Source for "Free" Imaging & PACS

Radiology Reading Room – Questions need an answer !

How to install/Configure KPACS (free PACS)

FDA Recall Database

"Your Needs" first step toward your PACS project

Calculating your PACS storage

Sad Story

From Diary of a PACS Engineer

Down, Not .. By Herman Oosterwijk

Radiology Ergonomics

PACS Census in Kuwait

PACS Certifications: The way to standardize the Industry

Q8PACS blog's 1st birthday

DICOM Interoperability at Q8PACS

Using Google Desktop to Create an Education-centric Search engine

PACS During Holidays

Microsoft Amalga RIS/PACS

Distributor Vs. Corporate

PACS in the Emergency Department interview with Dr. Anwar AL-Awadhi

PACS Contest June 2010

10 Things we learn from history of PACS

Online contest July 2010

في ذكرى الغزو .. أهمية المعلومات

Diagnostic Monitors - Case Study in Kuwait - Part I

Online Contest Nov.2010

"PACS Laws" by Dr. Dalai

Dr. Dalai Blog Logo

Here is a great piece of "PACS" by Dr. Dalai .. a well known PACS professional and blogger. Dr. Dalai started blogging long time ago (~2005) criticizing current status of imaging informatics and vendor's role on this. Dr. Dalai writes his blogs on

(http://doctordalai.blogspot.com)

Even though Dr. Dalai writes long blogs, but I always enjoyed his writings. I choose one article he recently wrote on his blog which summarized his long experience .. Enjoy it ..

“ Over the years, certain trends and patterns in PACS and our relations with PACS vendors as well as Information Technology became clear. I’ve distilled these into the LAWS of PACS. I have revised this list over the years, as the landscape keeps changing. Here they are

1. PACS IS the radiology department.
   
2. PACS exists to improve patient care. Its users are the radiologists and radiologic technologists. The entire goal of the PACS team is to optimize PACS function for its users.
3. PACS should be the shared responsibility of the radiology and IT departments.
4. PACS should not get in your way.
5. Workflow is inversely proportional to the number of buttons on the PACS desktop.
6. PACS is not film.
   
7. The degree of understanding of Radiologist workflow is inversely proportional to the size of the PACS company.
   
8. Vendors work for us, not the other way around.
9. A true PACS guru is worth his/her weight in gold.
10. All software errors, including those within PACS code, can be repaired if the vendor is sufficiently motivated to do so.
11. If IT doesn’t like something, it will be termed a security risk.
12. The PACS needs to be operable by the least technically-savvy radiologist on staff.
    
13. Drive before you buy. Request for test environment for your new systems; i.e. Virtual machine of your servers, (Q8PACS Admin)