West Midlands trusts to share images
Insignia Medical Systems programme manager Alan Lonie, UHB PACS manager Ian Wilson, UHB project manager Pankaj Das, Insignia managing director Richard Dormer, UHB imaging technical lead Barnaby Waters, UHB deputy director of operations, division A, Paul Brettle, Insignia operations manager Erik Dege, project manager Richard Tyler and chief technical officer Jon Hall.
West Midlands Genomic Medicine Centre (WMGMC) has chosen Insignia Medical Systems to provide its regional sharing service. WMGMC, led by University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust, is one of 13 genomic medicine centre’s established to deliver NHS England’s 100,000 Genomes Project and brings together 17 acute NHS trusts across the West Midlands to provide regional image sharing.
The 100,000 Genomes Project, the largest of its kind in the world, aims to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases and cancer by combining the genomic data of participants with their medical records, also producing a ground-breaking resource for future research.
Working with all 17 partner trusts, Insignia will provide its InSight Sharing Service to deliver real-time regional clinical viewing of images to support delivery of the project.
See the full report on page 27 of the June 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.
