Pan-Canadian evaluation of irreversible compression ratios ("lossy" compression) for development of national guidelines.

New technological advancements including multislice CT scanners and functional MRI, have dramatically increased the size and number of digital images generated by medical imaging departments. Despite the fact that the cost of storage is dropping, the savings are largely surpassed by the increasing volume of data being generated. While local area network bandwidth within a hospital is adequate for timely access to imaging data, efficiently moving the data between institutions requires wide area network bandwidth, which has a limited availability at a national level.

Fraser Health PACS project: learning from experience in planning.

Fraser Health is proud of its new imaging technology. Making the transition from film to PACS has proven to be both rewarding and challenging. PACS is now performing as planned, providing physicians and health care providers with a faster, safer, more streamlined imaging service than ever before.