Hi, On Friday 29 October 2004 08:38, plasticdoc wrote: > You do it on paper, film or magnetic tape. > You do not do it on a computer system. Nobody does it. You just cannot > afford it. Nobody can. Even organizations with very deep pockets gave up.
Id like to show the opposite to this opinion. Our hospital has replaced its old analog/film radiology systems with full digital systems. All x-rays, ct scans, nmr scans are digital and now stored in a central storage (with backup storage). A conventional film can be created from the digital data with a special laser printer/film developer upon request. Now, one revelation for all of us techies here is the main reason why the hospital decided to switch to full digital systems (spending some million euros) considering that the analog systems were actually in very good form and could have functioned for several more years. The reason was this: The film archive rooms were bursting full already and a new archive had to be built. The costs of building the new archive would have been almost as high as the costs of a full digital system. So the administration decided to go for the digital system. It is clear that it was due to financial considerations and not because the admin people were fans of high-tech. elpidio ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
