Enterprise Imaging Informatics: PACS in Radiology and beyond

The role of medical imaging in modern healthcare is without doubt, a vital one as almost every clinical discipline utilizes it to a certain aspect. Rapid proliferation of lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes and hypertension due to poor diet and lack of exercise has resulted in the increasing reliance on medical imaging both for diagnostics as well as for therapeutics vis-à-vis image-guided intervention procedures, minimally invasive surgery and patient progress monitoring (e.g. response to drug treatments).