Digital Imaging Network - Picture Archiving and Communications System IV (DIN-PACS IV)

Provide services supporting the Digital Imaging Network - Picture Archiving and Communications System (DIN-PACS), an open system network of digital devices designed for the effective acquisition, transmission, display, and management of diagnostic imaging studies. DIN-PACS provides for diagnostic X-ray images in digital output that can be transmitted for analysis anywhere in the hospital or in the world. DIN-PACS support the business process changes throughout the Military Health System (MHS) and, especially, within the practice of military radiology. The vision for radiology is to create a "virtual" radiology department by eliminating multiple "place" constraints that arise both within and between diagnostic centers. Within facilities the DIN-PACS system is intended to eliminate the necessity of creating film and allow access to images by multiple users at any place and anytime. Between facilities, the system is intended to create opportunities to dynamically shift workload at anytime and to any location where clinical expertise is available. This vehicle was awarded as a F&O vehicle.