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Special Report: PACS

As healthcare organisations move to their second or third PACS procurements, they are now demanding new systems fit for the
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Spine could be engineered for XDS-I

Engineering the NHS Spine to support an XDS-I based solution for medical image sharing is “possible, but reasonably hard”, BT
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It’s cold out there

Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says it’s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of
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Caring, sharing

Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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PACS group demands action on NHS Number

Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the
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Wirral’s gateway to care

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical
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Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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National programme PACS suppliers announced

The Department of Health has today announced that every hospital trust in England should get a picture archiving and communications
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