North west trusts migrate 250m images with Pukka-j
Pukka-j technical director Kevin Wilson.
Pukka-j has carried out the migration of 250 million PACS images on behalf of four NHS trusts located in the north west of England.
The commissions from Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were separate projects but the end goal was the same. The trusts employed Pukka-j to localise PACS images from a local and central data store provided by the existing PACS local service provider (LSP).
Technical director Kevin Wilson said: “Every migration is unique, however, with the LSP solutions in place we were faced with the added complexity of data being flushed from the trusts’ local PACS and residing in a remote central data store.
“Our solutions coped well with the challenge, completing the projects in a timely fashion, while ensuring the migration process had no impact on the live PACS environment.”
See the full report on page 12 of the March 2013 issue of RAD Magazine.
