A Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is the digital backbone of any modern radiology practice. It replaces physical film and paper-based workflows with a centralised, secure repository for all medical images generated across your modalities — X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, mammography, and more.
Our PACS Imaging System provides radiologists, referring clinicians, and technologists with instant access to prior and current studies through a single unified interface. Instead of searching through storage rooms for film jackets, your team retrieves years of patient imaging history in seconds. This translates directly into faster turnaround times, fewer lost studies, and better clinical decisions made with complete information at hand.
For Australian practices, an effective PACS is not a luxury — it is a regulatory and operational necessity. The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) both expect digital image retention standards that only a properly managed PACS can deliver. Our system is built to meet and exceed those expectations.
Practices that deploy a well-configured PACS experience measurable improvements across their entire imaging workflow. Below are the outcomes our clients report after migration or fresh implementation.
Prior studies surface instantly alongside current exams, eliminating manual film searches.
Centralised digital archival with redundant storage means images are never misplaced or degraded.
Radiologists read from any workstation with full study context, cutting average report time significantly.
Eliminate film, chemistry, physical storage, and courier expenses associated with analogue imaging.
Six foundational modules work together to provide a complete image lifecycle — from acquisition at the modality to long-term archival and disaster recovery.
Clinical-grade DICOM storage with configurable retention policies aligned to Australian regulatory requirements. Studies are ingested directly from modalities, indexed by patient and accession number, and preserved with integrity verification across redundant storage layers.
Intelligent prefetching and multi-tier caching ensure prior comparisons load alongside current studies without delay. Radiologists spend seconds, not minutes, waiting for images — even on studies containing thousands of slices from advanced CT and MRI protocols.
Full compatibility with every major imaging modality — radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, PET, mammography, and dental CBCT. The system handles diverse DICOM service classes including Storage, Query/Retrieve, and Modality Worklist Management.
Strict adherence to DICOM 3.0 standards ensures seamless interoperability with equipment from GE, Siemens, Philips, Canon, Fuji, and all other major manufacturers. Our conformance statements are published and maintained for every supported service class.
Automated lifecycle policies move older studies from high-performance NVMe cache to cost-effective object storage. Retention rules are configurable per modality and study type, balancing rapid access for recent exams with economical long-term archival.
Geographically separated replication ensures your imaging archive survives site-level failures. Automated daily integrity checks, point-in-time recovery, and documented failover procedures keep your practice compliant and operational under any circumstance.
Our PACS architecture is designed to grow with your practice. The specifications below reflect production deployments across Australian clinics ranging from 50 to over 5,000 studies per month.
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Primary Cache | NVMe SSD, 90-day rolling window |
| Nearline Tier | Enterprise HDD, 7-year active |
| Deep Archive | Object storage, 15+ year retention |
| Scalability | Petabyte-scale, elastic growth |
| Redundancy | 3-site replication, erasure coding |
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Supported Modalities | CR, DX, CT, MR, US, NM, PT, MG, XA |
| DICOM Services | C-STORE, C-FIND, C-MOVE, C-GET |
| Compression | JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, RLE |
| Retention Policy | Configurable per modality, min 15 years |
| Concurrent Users | 250+ simultaneous sessions |
PACS does not operate in isolation. Our system connects to every layer of your healthcare IT environment using industry-standard protocols, ensuring images and metadata flow automatically between systems without manual intervention.
Bidirectional HL7 messaging with your Radiology Information System keeps patient demographics, exam status, and accession numbers synchronised. When a study is completed at the modality, the PACS receives worklist entries automatically and routes images to the correct reading queue.
Hospital Information System integration via HL7 v2 and FHIR enables order entry, result distribution, and ADT (admit, discharge, transfer) feed processing. Images and reports become available within the hospital electronic medical record without duplicate data entry.
Structured reporting templates, voice recognition integration, and automated report distribution integrate tightly with the PACS. Finalised reports are attached to the study record and pushed to referrers via secure health link messaging or secure portal delivery.
Every radiology practice has different infrastructure constraints, network capabilities, and governance requirements. We support both deployment models and can operate a hybrid configuration where it makes sense.
Our managed cloud deployment runs in Australian data centres with redundant connectivity. Your practice benefits from elastic storage, automatic updates, zero server maintenance, and predictable monthly pricing. Ideal for new clinics, multi-site groups, and practices that want to avoid capital expenditure on hardware.
Eliminate server room cooling, power, and hardware refresh cycles.
Security patches and feature releases applied without downtime.
Images accessible across all locations through a single archive.
For practices with existing server infrastructure, strict data sovereignty requirements, or limited external bandwidth, an on-premise deployment places the PACS archive entirely within your facility. We supply, install, configure, and maintain the hardware and software under a managed service agreement.
All imaging data remains physically within your premises at all times.
Sub-millisecond retrieval over the practice LAN for maximum speed.
Our engineers handle monitoring, patching, and capacity planning remotely.
Our PACS integrates natively with the rest of the Radiology Software Finco platform. Explore the modules that extend imaging workflows into scheduling, cloud viewing, and mobile reading.
Appointment scheduling, patient registration, billing, and exam workflow tracking that feeds directly into your PACS reading worklists.
Zero-footprint web viewer for secure image sharing, second opinions, and cross-facility collaboration without local software installation.
iOS and Android application enabling radiologists to review images and approve reports from any location — perfect for on-call workflows.