The Research PACS on AWS solution facilitates researchers’ access medical images stored in the clinical PACS in a secure and seamless manner
Challenge to solve
The rise of new technologies in medical imaging, such as artificial intelligence, is an great opportunity to accelerate research and facilitate clinical improvements. This requires access to innovative services and computational capabilities, that the cloud can provide, as well as imaging and clinical data to support research studies.
Historically, it has been difficult for researchers to access medical images collected during the course of clinical care. This sometimes consists of a one-time, manual process where a clinical PACS operator exports and shares images with a research team on a USB stick or a shared file server. Personal health information may persist in exported files, posing a privacy or compliance risk. Different research teams may also need access to different datasets, which requires