Indicators to estimate radiographic film savings due to a PACS in a Mexican health institute

Author

Lemus-Martínez, C. ; Ortiz-Posadas, M. ; Pimentel-Aguilar, A.B.

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

4515

Lastpage

4518

Abstract

The scope of this paper is to evaluate the impact of PACS implementation in radiographic film (RF) savings at the Imaging Department at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Mexico City, considering both Computed Tomography (CT) and Computed Radiography (CR) modalities. The PACS at the INER was installed in 2006, and the CT and CR have been operating entirely digitally since then. Therefore, the document evaluate three different periods, before the arriving of the PACS (2005), during the PACS installation (2006) and after PACS (2007). A set of indicators were designed to measure and visualize the impact of the PACS in the RF savings. Two templates are provided to define and to apply each one of the indicators proposed.

Keywords

Chromium; Cities and towns; Computed tomography; Costs; Diseases; Hospitals; Picture archiving and communication systems; Productivity; Radio frequency; Radiography; Academies and Institutes; Costs and Cost Analysis; Efficiency, Organizational; Information Storage and Retrieval; Mexico; Models, Organizational; National Health Programs; Organizational Innovation; Radiology Information Systems; Time Factors; Workload;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650216

Filename

4650216