The early adoption in the 1990s of a standard for the organization, storage, and communication of medical information fueled a revolution in medical informatics in the last two decades of the 20th century. Now in the 21st century, a new revolution seems to be near......

A PACS, or Picture Archiving and Communication System for short, is a medical imaging technology whose function is to store and transmit information captured by medical images that can be accessed by healthcare professionals in a medical facility.

Telemedicine represents the medicine of the future, with advanced big data services. The Oxford dictionary defines telemedicine as “the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology” [1]. The advantages of a telemedicine program...

Histopathological analysis is the gold standard tool in the diagnosis of cancer. The most common way to perform this analysis consist of the extraction of tissue samples to examine it more closely under the microscope. Usually, tissue samples are extracted by either...

Biomedical engineers or the technology department have traditionally been responsible for managing the information systems of hospitals or medical imaging centers. However, the management and outsourcing of the management of these systems by technology companies are...

The early adoption in the 1990s of a standard for the organization, storage, and communication of medical information fueled a revolution in medical informatics in the last two decades of the 20th century. Now in the 21st century, a new revolution seems to be near......