Don’t wait until your facility’s PACS is on the fritz to consider implementing adequate backup policies and procedures. Plan ahead to head off disaster.  - By Herman Oosterwijk*, OTech Inc.

As picture archiving and communication systems have become more widespread, so has dependence on this technology. Administrators who are newer to PACS may not realize the breadth of their facility’s dependency until the system shuts down—a far cry from the best-case scenario of being forewarned and forearmed.