Implementation of Medical Imaging Informatics Based Radiology Teaching System in Iraqi Medical Academics

Abstract

The proposed system is developed for taking advantage of the rich data from the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and related databases for clinical service, research, and education applications. The system based on real medical cases of patients through allowing radiologists and specialists from using PACS data for creating new radiology teaching cases and transmitting them to the proposed system. Each case file consists of medical images and case/patient description information. System also allows the external radiologists from accessing the system and adding new cases. The cases can be read and discussed by residents and medical students. Also each case can be provided with number of questions that can be used as training quizzes. System structure is based on modular structure so the available structure and features can be modified or updated according to the needs of the developing team; this feature brings into view the power of the modular open sources projects.System access is restricted through using user identification and authentication technique that requires user ID and password for access system data. While the privileges that each user can perform are controlled through programming the databases’ depth that he/she can access.The strategy used for implementing the system is web-based strategy that makes the system more sustainable and portable. The suggested tools for implementing the system are most newly tools that are used to build such systems (Apache Web Server, PHP, MySQL Database server, and JavaScript) because their robust, open source, secure, and reliability features