RUH upgrades reporting environment and enjoys noticeably faster results
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) has extended its Synapse PACS partnership with Fujifilm.
In 2012 RUH agreed a managed service contract for which Fujifilm installed Synapse PACS, Mobility and 3D. At the end of 2018, RUH decided to continue the relationship for a further five years in a new agreement that incorporates Fujifilm’s latest HTML5 PACS Synapse 5 and implements Fujifilm’s TeraMedica VNA, alongside the existing solutions.
“Our reporting equipment throughout the department was in need of updating,” said consultant radiologist and chief clinical information officer Dr Ynyr Hughes-Roberts.
“We wanted to migrate our data into a VNA to future-proof the enterprise and progress towards image sharing. Upgrading to a thin client in the form of Synapse 5 and updating our voice dictation software will make reporting faster. We also wanted a home reporting solution, which we think is essential to allow flexible working and improve patient care with subspeciality opinions. Fujifilm provided the managed service workstations we needed, and tailored each one for its intended use.”
RUH is driving its enterprise imaging strategy by integrating its EPR with the Synapse portfolio, which will provide all clinicians across the enterprise access to patient records and imaging. The power and speed of server-side rendering has enabled radiologists to have the state-of-the-art Synapse Home Reporting Solution, which is an exact replica of their office environment.
“The new workstations are noticeably faster and more reliable, even though still running the previous software versions,” said Dr Hughes-Roberts. “Once the new operating system, Synapse 5 and the latest voice dictation software is rolled out we expect to see even greater improvements.
“We are very happy with the service and products delivered by Fujifilm.”
Picture: Fujifilm medical informatics sales specialist Paul Newman, consultant radiologist Dr Graham Robinson, consultant radiologist and chief clinical information officer Dr Ynyr Hughes-Roberts and head of radiology Craig Forster.
Published on page 32 of the May 2019 issue of RAD Magazine.
