Abstract
The Shared Regional PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) operated by the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, was from the start designed to serve as a reliable and accessible communications node and also as an educational and research centre available to any hospital or other healthcare institutions, including medical faculties, interested in participating in the System. Outsourcing of the archiving and communications technology permitted cooperation between hospitals and utilisation of existing multimedia data of patients. The System has, step by step, changed the thinking of medical specialists and taught them to cooperate and share data about patients in electronic form. The Shared Regional PACS is not just a computer network but rather is and develops a network of medical specialists. The impact of this network is not only in the field of healthcare but also in education of medical specialists. The data stored in the shared archive can be made anonymous (i.e., the personal data of patients are replaced by fictitious personal information) and used for educational purposes. Moreover, the process of making the personal data anonymous can be done in such a way that the data about the real patient obtained from several hospitals can use the same anonymous identity and therefore offer to students a more complex view of the evolution of the patient's health.
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