Clinical Radiology

Clinical Director: Dr J.Kabala
General Manager: Mr P.Richardson

Project Lead: Prof. Dr. N.Shastry

The Department: Our ISO 9002 accredited Department, on 9 sites (7 Hospital, 2 GP), comprises of: 

· 58 imaging rooms, 2 CTs & 2 MRs (3 each by early 2002), 2 DR systems (3 by early 2002), 20   Ultrasound, 2 Gamma Cameras
· a staff complement of  3 Clinical Professors, 1 Non-clinical Professor, 17 Consultants, 17 Specialist Registrars (in house), 102  Radiographers and 25 A&C staff 
· a current budget of £8M and collaborative ventures for IHE worth £4.5M with our partners
. evaluating medical and digital data transfers in collaboration with academic, NHSIA and industrial partners. 

Integrated Health Care IHE Pathway for the Patient

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

Our objective is the “ICARAS* 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 have a pedigree in PC based Telemedicine and Medical Informatics since the mid 1990s implementing. The IHE development was designed to meet the growing demand for medical information over integrated systems.

We have evaluated and implemented to date: 

>> Realtime ultrasound transfers on ISDN6(1996/97)

>> Clinical/teaching/research image storage systems(1996/97)

>> GP Link(1997/98)

>> Smart Card based solutions for IHE(1997/98) 

>> Emergency medicine solutions for image transfers using mobile communication technology(1998/99) 

>> Multicentre-Cardiovascular-Multimedia” Database(1998/99) 

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

>> Remote Image links for chest and ultrasound images(2001)

>> 2/6 planned OP Clinics for digital chest image transfers as a part of the Avon Health IT Strategy(2001) 

>> NT Roll-out-Phase II for multimedia/image based RIS(2001) 

>> Radiological On-call services(2001) 

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