Liverpool trust opts for 10Gbps network for PACS
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has installed a new WAN that the trust hopes will allow the high-speed transfer of PACS images between the two sites both now and in the future. Bandwidth of 10 Gbps has been placed between the sites for the specific purpose of transferring PACS images. A […]
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
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Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails
A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals has been praised by health minister, John Hutton. Hutton described the email service as an “innovative scheme” during his address to a conference in Birmingham this week about the NHS information portal, www.nhs.uk. He […]
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