Online Data & Web Based Images

 Paediatrics CR

 CT, MR, US, DR     Cardiac CathLab 

 RIS    HIS HIS/PAS/PATHO

 IHE

 

 


Clinical Radiology

Clinical Director: Dr J.Kabala
General Manager: Mr P.Richardson
Imaging Project Group
Project Consultant:
Professor Dr N.Shastry

CANCER LINKS

DIABETES LINKS

TELEMEDICINE

NEWS: EC Healthware: Prof. Dr. N.Shastry is the UK Lead for the Multimillion Euro, Satellite based Telemedicine Project:  Slide Show (Basic)

Our Integrated Healthcare IHE activity case study in the eHealth Impact database of the

European Union European flag - link to Homepage EUROPA website Logo eHealth Impact Logo Information Society

RSM Award winning presentation The paper ""PACs How to Save Millions with SAN & NAS "Not just PACs, the IHE Components as well"" won an award at the 10th Anniversary TeleMed 03 Conference at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. News article Link 2
The Department: Our ISO 9002 accredited Department, on 9 sites (7 Hospital, 2 GP), comprises of: 

· 58 imaging rooms, 3 CTs (including 4 & 16 Slice Scanners) & 3 MRs (0.2T Open, 1T & 1.5T), 4 DR systems, 25 Ultrasound, 3 Gamma Cameras, 2 CR 
· 1 Clinical Professor, 1 Non-Clinical Professor, 17 Consultants, 17 Specialist Registrars (in house), 102  Radiographers and 25 A&C staff 
· a current budget of £8.5 M and collaborative ventures for IHE worth £4.5M with our partners
evaluating medical and digital data transfers in collaboration with Clinical, Academic, Industrial partners Nationally & Internationally. 

. evaluating eLearning & eHealth concepts

. Telemedicine: Terrestrial, Mobile & Satellite

 

Integrated Health Care IHE Pathway for the Patient: “Patient Treatment Lifecycle Management PTLM”

"Developing an Integrated Healthcare Enterprise IHE, Collaborative Imaging & Progression towards an all Digital Facility based on the ICARAS* agenda" 

*ICARAS: Interoperability, Compatibility, Accessibility, Reliability, Scalability, Affordability

Radiology Directorate’s

Concept, Guidelines-Protocols

 

PACs Concept:

Review, Where-we-are-now
Some Case Studies
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Our objective is the “ICARAS, standards-based systems integration and interoperability” development and deployment of  Trust Wide” medical images and health records over high speed fixed and mobile-wireless data links. We are the expert centre for acute care in the South West and we are connecting to all the Trusts and Hospitals who refer patients to us (we have connected to Swindon, Yeovil & Barnstable for now, over the NHS Net); we are also working on Cancer Care initiatives and have conducted nearly 32 Virtual eMDTs (~330 patients). We have a pedigree in PC based Telemedicine and Medical Informatics since the mid 1990s and have implemented a number of innovative e-health solutions. The Integrated Healthcare Enterprise, IHE development was designed to meet the growing demand for medical information OnLine in our healthcare arena over standards based e-health systems.

PROJECT HOME

Digitally Integrated (IHE):

Conference Room

We have evaluated and implemented to date the projects detailed below ::: These have led to our continual developments in

Standards based, Interoperable, Scalable “Best-of-Breed” LOW COST  Integrated PACs-RIS-HIS Implementation” strategy

INTRANET (Internal)

Real-time ultrasound transfers on ISDN6 (since 1996/97) ::: best-of-breed solution for real-time, remote foetal and paediatric US cardiac scans between Truro and the Bristol Children’s Cardiac Consultants (this model can be used for any remote sites and emergencies)

Emergency medicine solutions for image transfers using mobile communication technology for Ambulances, Paramedics and A&E Support (since 1998/99) 

Trialled Smart Card based solutions for IHE(1997/98) ::: Multicentre-Cardiovascular-Multimedia Database(1998/99) 

Lung Cancer Care Protocol to meet with the national guidelines and the NSFs (since 1999/2000) 

ICARAS (Interoperability,..,..)

Remote Image links for chest and ultrasound images (since 2001) ::: Remote CT, MR, US links to Swindon, Yeovil & Barnstable for now, over the NHS Net

NT Roll-out-Phase II for multimedia/image based RIS (2001) ::: Radiological On-call services (2001) ::: GP Link (since 1997/98)

Planned OP Clinics for digital chest image transfers as a part of the Avon Health IT Strategy (2001) 

Clinical / teaching / research image storage systems (since 1996/97) :: Based on best-of-breed “SAN & NAS” technology since 1998/99