O3-DPACS: an open source PACS solution for the O3 Consortium project

Contents of this book were inserted in the O3 Consortium research project, which had the aim to propose a complete solution for the adoption of open technology in the healthcare environment. The solution should become a whole new model for e-health application and include new products integrated with a development, support and business model. The author contributed to built a state of the art server for the management of DICOM data and of imaging objects (PACS - Picture and Archiving Communication System), with the aim to ease the adoption of e-health technology and to develop a product on which the model would have been tested. It should be remarked that the O3 Consortium means not only software development but also new procedures in both technology and service delivering. Should be noted the originality of the O3 Consortium project proposal of a whole complete application model to the healthcare real world based on open source software. No other solution for open source software application makes a complete proposal for all the topics of development, design, software architecture, support and business opportunity.