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April 14, 2021

RoboRad – a real-time system for monitoring and analysis of PACS reporting room occupancy and workstation utilisation

PACS diagnostic reporting workstations are expensive resources that often cannot be afforded and made available to every reporting radiologist on a one-to-one basis. In our institution, the ratio of available workstations to potential reporting radiologists is one to three, which is not ideal for a productive and efficient radiology operation. The workstations are located in […]

Bahman Kasmai, Dr Hilmar Spohr, Martin Doddington, Dr Ben Simpson

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Global Clinic Norwich

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April 14, 2021

An analysis of the requirements for independent patient image access

Patients are being provided with increasing access to their medical data through mechanisms such as patient portals and the Summary Care Record. This reflects a growing expectation from patients that this data will be available to them. There are also further drivers for increasing this access to their images, including a focus on patient-centric care […]

William Cox

University of Portsmouth

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April 19, 2019

Intelligent paperless working in radiology

I suppose I really should be more understanding when I hear a colleague complaining that the 2,000-slice CT has taken “over two minutes” to download to their PACS workstation at home, for it is all too easy to forget just how significant the digital transformation has been for medical imaging over the last decade or […]

Dr Stephen Fenn

Royal Hampshire County Hospital

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April 19, 2019

Artificial intelligence – image interpretation platforms

In 1995, I worked as a junior doctor on the wards in medicine. I often performed an ECG on patients with acute chest pain. Interestingly, even back then the ECG graph was accompanied by a machine-generated clinical interpretation or ECG report, eg left bundle branch block, myocardial infarction etc. These interpretations helped the inexperienced junior […]

Dr Neelam Dugar

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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January 8, 2019

PACS for clinical radiographers

Historically, film served as the means of image acquisition, display and archive. Computed and digital radiography splits those components between CR cassettes or digital detectors that acquire images, monitors that display them and file servers that archive them. Thus was born the Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS). Traditionally the Radiology Information System (RIS) is […]

Karen Hawkins

Nobles Hospital

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January 8, 2019

PACS: What radiologists need to consider

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 […]

Rizwan Malik

Royal Bolton Hospital

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January 8, 2019

Future of PACS

Figure 1 shows what a typical reporting workstation looks like. We have seamless bi-directional integration between PACS and RIS and with other third-party systems integrated (specialised viewers, order comms, etc). In Carestream’s case, we have many of the advanced visualisation tools required by reporters native in our application, meaning you have one workstation that does […]

Charles McCaffrey

Carestream

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September 14, 2018

emrad: Can technology solve workforce issues?

Imaging services within the NHS are in difficulty. There is a widely reported gap between demand for diagnostic imaging and high quality interpretation and capacity to provide this. This is due to a national workforce shortage that cannot quickly be remedied. This gap creates delays in many pathways that rely on imaging, including almost all […]