By Steve Ranger, 19 January 2006 14:25
NEWS
Picture Archiving and Communications System (Pacs)
This will allow images such as X-rays and scans to be stored digitally, and all but removes traditional film from the process. As a result health professionals can access them on laptops or tablet PCs, speeding up the delivery of information - and cutting the costs associated with film processing and storage.
Pacs is being delivered throughout England within five regions or "clusters", each working with a single Local Service Provider (LSP).
What progress so far?
The NHS aims to have "the bulk" of the deployment completed by March next year. Twelve trusts and one radiology academy are using Pacs from NHS Connecting for Health. More than nine million images are now stored on new systems.
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1. anonymous
Um, interesting. Some points raised differ from what the reality.
Trusts are being pushed into CRS with no reguard to existing functionality or cost of moving to the new system.
Choose and Book is a complete failure, with all rollouts being stopped in our area, and existing users being told that they can stop using the system if they want to.
The N3 rollout success depends on what you mean by connected. BT have a different meaning of that phrase than most.
PACS is in, and working with a few glitches. The project was painfull however.
Setting users up on the Spine is a slow and painfull business, with a lot of resistance from users.
The Contact email system is slow and clumbersom, and not very user friendly.
You have missed of a few major national projects, such as the Electronic Staff Record, Shares Business Service and Integrated Comunity Equipment Services, all heading for their own show stopping problems if we're not carefull.
Overall, a nightmare for NHS IT Staff.
2. anonymous
Haven't seen any evidence of this in use yet.
3. matthew
How do you find out which IT companies are involved in these NHS -IT projects like choose and book? there seems to be problems with payment that is affecting accenture, but i can't find out or see who the other companies affected are - so its hard to judge if its bad NHS management of projects, or poor delivery by the companies that is the problem?
what does everyone else think on this issue?