Evaluating PACS Technology Situation in Iran

The utilization of PACS is expanding in numerous parts of worlds. The witnesses and contexts show the lack of suitable expansion of this knowledge in Iran, so I decided to review the situation of PACS in Iran in form of master thesis of medical IT. Following cases are considered in this study:"na) Considering of companies about internal produc-tions or external produces sale: by main considering about active company in PACS field in Iran, it be-comes obvious that just 2 Iranian companies are active in production of PACS at this time, one of them considered to external products, and in this time just one medical informatics company cooperation still has activity about internal production in this field. More than 10 companies are active as legal and illegal representation in dif-ferent PACSes installation."nb) Review and attitude to PACS in Iran: this work is accomplished by providing questionnaire and sending it to more than 50 different radiology centers. Among 37 centers that returned questionnaire, only 12 centers had PACS. 48.6% of these centers did not consider any PACS, 43.8% did not have any tendency to consider PACS, and only 32.4% of these centers probably will provide CR in 2 years later."nThe attitude effect of radiologists, managers and physicians in PACS expansion in order is 88.2%, 90.0% and 92%. There is direct correlation with the PACS inspection & number of DICOM output devices (p=0.002) and competition between Imaging Centers (p=0.034).