Network management for picture archiving and communication systems

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have been rapidly deployed to hospitals around the world over the past five years. Although these systems significantly improve the efficiency of the hospital workload, their connectivity with other diagnostic imaging devices is a challenging task. Thus, we have developed the PACS Monitor system based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). PACS Monitor system can be used to efficiently identify and resolve connectivity issues. This project provides a framework development of the PACS Monitor system. Although we have defined and developed only a subset of the PACS management data, the design may be scaled to support the entire management data used for PACS administration.