Trusts told to end local PACS procurements
All English NHS trusts have been told they must immediately end any PACS (Picture Archiving and Storage System) procurements after the Department of Health’s belated decision to make PACS a ‘core’ service. As first reported by E-Health Insider last week PACS will now be made a core service and existing trust PACS procurements will have […]
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NPfIT mandates LSP PACS solutions
The National Programme for IT has reclassified picture archiving and communications system (PACS) as a “core NPfIT service" but, unlike other core services to be delivered by local service providers (LSPs), it will not be fully centrally funded. The reclassification of PACS as a core service means that trusts are now mandated to use the […]
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Voxar provides Bournemouth with 3D PACS view
Edinburgh-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) software specialist Voxar, has won a contract to supply the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s radiology department with its 3D imaging software. Voxar’s imaging software allows the rapid rendering and display of 3D medical scan images from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) on […]
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Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern
Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the five National Programme for IT (NPfIT) clusters, it now seems certain that contracts for at least two clusters will now be awarded to Agfa rather than GE Medical Systems as originally thought. An NPfIT spokesperson […]
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Getting ready for the leap forward
With the National Programme for IT now geared up for delivery, Paul Charnley, regional implementation director for the North West and West Midlands cluster, spoke to E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma…
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The future of digital imaging
The government recently announced that all acute trusts in England will move to PACS within the next three years. This is a huge undertaking both in terms of costs and especially change management…
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Private hospital begins radiography IT modernisation
A private hospital in Kent has invested in a computed radiography (CR) system, as part of the first stage of “a wider digital imaging strategy". The technology, which was supplied to Chelsfield Park Hospital, near Orpington, by Kodak, comes in several parts. The Directview CR 850 System processes the images from cassette and can send […]
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Dermatology telemedicine system wins innovation award
An innovative scheme that not only uses electronic referral and PACS but software that plots healing patterns based on archived images has won its creators a cash award for Innovative Service Delivery in the NHS Innovations Health & Social Care Awards. The Leg Ulcer Telemedicine (LUTM) Service was programmed and developed by consultant vascular surgeon Simon […]
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Airedale puts X-rays on PACS
Airedale NHS Trust, in Keighley, West Yorkshire, has installed a PACS system that allows x-rays to be stored and shared. The system (below), developed and installed by Siemens, replaces the original arrangement of light boxes, films and manual cataloguing. Instead, screens have been placed throughout the hospital so that clinicians can access the images they […]
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Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients
Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic image-sharing link that replaces the old system of doctors describing patients’ injuries over the phone. A large JPEG of the patient’s injury is taken over a digital camera and uploaded to the software. The image […]
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