Doncaster deploys bespoke XDS solution for integrated image and document record

Fujifilm UK sales specialist, medical informatics, Opey Olorunlero and consultant radiologist at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Neelam Dugar.

Consultant radiologist at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Neelam Dugar, informatics adviser to the Royal College of Radiologists, has been campaigning for many years for XDS data sharing tools to be adopted as a standard.  “Generally PACS users don’t have the ability to view a complete patient record including reports and images from other specialist departments, but by developing an XDS consumer there is the potential to transform healthcare for patients in the UK and globally,” states Fujifilm.

Fujifilm have worked with Dr Dugar at Doncaster to create a standards-based solution that allows PACS users to view non-DICOM documents in the XDS consumer.

“XDS as a standard holds a lot of promise for an integrated image and document record,” explained Dr Dugar.  “Currently in healthcare, clinical and departmental systems are siloed, but an integrated patient record view is essential for patient safety in hospitals.  XDS also has the potential for creating paperless clinical records by indexing both documents and images from all specialties, and XDS can bring about the required integration in a vendor neutral way.”

Read the full report on page 26 of the October 2018 issue of RAD Magazine.