juggernautsei wrote on Sunday, January 17, 2016:
Since 2002, when a Minnesota-based Acuo Technologies released the first vendor-neutral archive (VNA), PACS has been on a slow march to “deconstruction.” Deconstructed PACS include the same components of legacy, proprietary PACS – an archive, a viewer and a worklist/workflow engine – but each component exists as a separate, standards-based application that provides its core function with a high level of competency.