Download as a PDFPUKKA-J’S TELERADIOLOGY SOLUTION PROVES TO BE INVALUABLE FOR REMOTE REPORTING AT ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL
Pukka-J’s PACSPostTM Teleradiology solution is proving to be an invaluable tool for remote reporting of radiology images, particularly MRI and CT scans with large data sets. Royal Preston Hospital (part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) is finding this unique aspect of the system an extra bonus; for instance, up to one hundred slices of CT data from a patient study can be reported remotely from Chorley & South Ribble Hospital’s new multi-slice scanner, either to Royal Preston, or to another remote site, e.g. the Consultant’s home.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital, offering a full range of acute services for the people of Chorley, Preston and South Ribble, together with a range of specialist services for the wider population of Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Pukka-J's PACSPost webpage viewer CT images in MIP and MPR display
The system itself provides rapid remote access to radiology images via the internet with a highly secure internet and email solution, PACSPostTM. This fast and efficient method of delivering diagnostic quality images over the web enables radiology consultants at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble DGH to report on urgent cases remotely. The Radiology Department at Royal Preston Hospital had identified a need to upgrade their existing system, which was proving to be time-consuming and slow, and was reliant on the more traditional dial-up connection. Pukka-J’s unique web-based solution was able to offer a faster service, designed specifically for medical professionals to access IT services and share sensitive imaging data across networks.
Professor Jonathan Hill,
Clinical Director Royal Preston Hospital Reports on emergency patient scans at the BNMS 2005 conference
Now up and running, it is proving to be a useful tool in supplying an on-call service that allows consultants and registrars to transmit detailed reports on cross sectional imaging from a remote location. Providing the user has a high specification computer, with fast broadband connection and configured appropriately, then CT brain images can be downloaded within three minutes and MRI scans or CT scans of the thorax, abdomen and pelvis within ten minutes. In addition, it allows consultants to not only view any images that the registrar has seen, but also to identify if they have been reviewed. As a two-site Trust, scans can be reviewed during the day with consultants and registrars from either site. Also, consultants can report from home for on-call ‘quiet hours’ reporting.
Pukka-J designed its PACSPostTM teleradiology service as a highly secure method of delivering diagnostic quality images over the web, and is fully compliant with clinical governance guidelines. Users are able to access the system through password-protected web pages, via the internet, for diagnostic review and reporting. The system connects direct to any local digital imaging network, acquisition modality workstations, DICOM stores, mini-PACS and PACS. The methodology is similar to a standard e-mail tool; therefore ‘broadcasting’ allows disparate clinical groups to share images across wide unconnected area networks.
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