Medical imaging workstation: a software environment.

In a study to set up an experimental simple imaging workstation with facilities for image input, storage, presentation and manipulation, BAZIS developed a software package called FRACTALS (Filmless Radiology And Computerized Task Analysis Lab Software). The investment in the development of effective software for digital radiological workstations is of great importance in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) research. General purpose workstations are becoming less expensive and more powerful.

Background of the demonstrated IMAGIS activities and future expectations.

In The Netherlands a national PACS development programme has been started, supported by the Dutch Society of Radiology and funded by the Dutch Department of Health because of the national character of the project. Three main partners are cooperating in this development: the Utrecht University Hospital (AZU), BAZIS and Philips International (Product Division Medical Systems), with the Delft University of Technology as the main BAZIS subcontractor. The non-profit foundation BAZIS, developing and supporting the ZIS Hospital Information System (in use in some 30 Dutch hospitals, over 15,000 acute beds), initiated its current IMAGe Information System (IMAGIS) projects in 1984.