PACS is the infrastructure of
Hospital Operations: It gives faster and more widely available access to images and reports； offer the potential for saving in clinician time and patients length of stay.
Radiology Operations: It provides timely access to the images to improve the patients flow, throughput and image reporting.
Teaching Files: Both educational and clinical goals are enhanced by convenient access to teaching cases during reading sessions.
Multimodality Image Fusion: Eliminates the need of multiple single-connections.
Tele-Radiology: It helps by archiving the images, and providing the infrastructure connection to the outside hospitals and clinics.