Beginning Monday, Nov. 5, all 5th floor surgical suites will be filmless, with PACS images available via Web/VS, says Barry D. Pressman, M.D., chair of the Department of Imaging. Back-up CDs will be provided. Laminated instruction cards will be positioned on the wall next to the workstations. Click here to view a PDF copy of the PACS Soft Copy Viewing Instructions.

For advance viewing of outside CDs, as well as viewing PACS images, a portable OR-compatible workstation is positioned in room 5341 near the OR suites.

Coming Phases:

Deployment of Back-up PACS - Beginning with the 8th floor, an OR-compatible workstation will be placed on each surgical floor to view both CDs and PACs images.

8th Floor ORs - Implementation of digital image viewing in all 8th floor suites will occur during the first quarter of 2008. The other surgical floors will follow in a timely manner.

If you have questions/comments, please contact George Depaolis, manager of Imaging Information and Logistics, at (310) 423-2709 or at Depaolis@cshs.org.