Imaging cooperation between the Okayama diagnostic imaging center and the okayama university hospital

Financial problems in national university hospitals in these ten years caused the difficulty of purchase of new imaging machines, such as PET/CT scanner, multi-raw-detector CT scanner, or MR imaging scanner. We established a new diagnostic imaging center, which equipped modern imaging machines, outside of the university hospital in 2006. It was an independent clinic and adopted a rental system which is financially supported by a special purpose company. Imaging information of patients was electrically shared between the diagnostic imaging center and the university hospital by using the Okayama prefectural information highway.