Trending
- Novarad makes COVID-19 AI available for free download
- Creative radiotherapy staff see their ideas in action with help from The Royal Marsden’s Innovation Den
- HSL and Queen’s Ladies Rugby team up to boost breast cancer awareness
- Workflow management suites now available from OIS
- Professor Vano receives first BIR medal for outstanding international achievement
- The Christie set to integrate 11 SGRT systems
- Calderdale Royal staff appreciate mobile’s familiar interface
- Pennine Breast Service orders three mammography chairs from Rothband
- Siemens releases rapid antigen test for COVID-19
- Althea supports COVID-19 relief efforts of NHS charities
PACS: What radiologists need to consider
Author: Rizwan Malik
Excerpt: Back in 2004 the ambitious but oft-maligned National Programme for IT provisioned Picture Archivng and Communications (PACS) systems throughout the NHS in England with a series of Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts. One of the core benefits of this approach was that it allowed the ubiquitous roll-out of PACS across the NHS; the use of centrally provisioned suppliers and networks managed to cut through many of the local barriers to implementation we perceive in the implementation of IT systems in hospitals, even in current times.