A Review of PACS on Cloud for Archiving Secure Medical Images

2. Background

Patient's medical records, consultations, laboratory and medical reports, medical imaging and drugs are some of the items of patient's medical history, which becomes increasingly complex, containing important data growing exponentially. This history is the total care of the patient, which in addition to health care and other chores need to keep in a safe place all of this information. A growing number of cases that patients undergoing the query without the reports of examinations and other necessary documents, hindering and delaying an accurate diagnosis and effective.

Every day patients are treated at health centers, pharmacies and emergency rooms of hospitals in emergencies, requiring surgical intervention, or any other clinical procedure, these procedures require attention and historical conditions of the patient, which is not always this information comes the doctor's hands.