 25 pts.  DICOM standard for PACS In regards to PACS and the
DICOM standard, what are the key aspects my hospital must
consider to ensure compliance? ASKED: March 24, 2010  4:53 PM
UPDATED: June 10, 2010  10:34 am  Answer Wiki: Perhaps one of
the most important aspects is to make sure that your PACS vendor
and modality vendors can provide DICOM Conformance Statements.
These are documents that identify specifically what each vendor
supports with respect to the standard. They enable vendors to
determine if another vendor's support is compatible with their
own, and help in resolving differences. Standard brings
simplification to the complex situation.DICOM standard too do
the same thing.It helps to integrate the modalities from
different vendors with the PACS.Infact it is the corner stone of
the PACS.DICOM not only is used for integration with modalities
but also provides facilites that improves workflow,efficiency
and productivity.It is not sufficient to just seek commitment
from vendor while buying Imaging dev