Presidents’ Column

Welcome to the first DIMIST monthly newsletter. In case you are not familiar with DIMIST (Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Informatics Support Team), you can look us up at www.dimist.org. 

Case Study: Imaging and Clearcanvas PACS at Zinga Children’s hospital Tanzania

There are several options when deploying open source PACS systems. In this case, we installed a proven server and viewer, which is Windows-based, i.e., ClearCanvas. This software is very well suited to be deployed in a small clinic, such as this one, with 3 modalities doing a couple of procedures/day.