Communication Between Hospital and Radiology Information Systems and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

Appropriate medical care is determined by data on the patient’s condition on the one hand, and the knowledge and experience of the physician on the other. In the early days of health care, a patient had to deal with only one physician, who collected the observations himself and had the knowledge and experience stored in his own brain. With the advancement of medicine, increasing amounts of data had to be recorded, and these were no longer stored only in the brain of the physician, but gradually also recorded on paper: the medical record was born.