1. What happened to Leicester?
Dr. K A Mulcahy
RCR PACS meeting
Nov. 2003

2. L.G.H. N.H.S. Trust Department of Radiology
Healthcare
3 teaching hospital Trusts
Leicester General Hospital
Leicester Royal Infimary
Glenfield General hospital
Separate networks ( and IT departments)
Different RIS
Different PAS
Multiple smaller hospitals
Loughborough
Coalville
Hinckley
Melton Mowbray
Market Harborough
Oakham
Start point: 6 PCTs: 3 have hospitals

3. L.G.H. N.H.S. Trust Department of Radiology
February 1996
Contract signed with Data General
Software sub-contracted to Markcare Medical Systems (then SMI)
Signed the contract

4. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
1996
EMC
DG Support
1999
Medisolutions
Insignia
Markcare
2001
2002
2003

5. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
2001
2002
2000
LGH NHS Trust
UHL NHS Trust
I M & T Directorate
Imaging Directorate
LRI NHS Trust
GGH NHS Trust
Network upgrade
Flat switched ethernet
Gigabit links
Microwave 54MBit link
SAN ( Symmetrix)
PAS merge
RIS upgrade and merge

6. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
PAS
RIS
LRI
LGH
GGH
L`Boro
L`Boro
Insignia
Phillips
Phillips
Agfa

7. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
Developments
Content Addressable Storage (CAS)
Web based image distribution
CPACS

8. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
CAS
All on line
Cheaper
Multiple user support (++)
Direct connection
User “gateway”
64 bit key
XML file BLOB support
Inbuilt security
SAN
Expensive
All eggs in a very good box!
Internal disk management
Network drive
Fast (Fibre channel SCSI)
CAS next week!

9. U.H.L. N.H.S. Trust Directorate of Radiology
Web based distribution
Watch this space!
CPACS
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