Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected AGFA HealthCare’s enterprise imaging radiology information system (RIS) to replace existing systems across five sites, with AGFA’s solution to support the full end-to-end medical imaging pathway.
The RIS will work alongside the trust’s existing third-party patient administration system, with functionalities including order placement and receiving, procedure scheduling, patient registration and arrival, and image acquisition workflows. It also offers audit capabilities and business intelligence to support reporting and regulatory requirements.
Sara Elliot, head of radiology at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, highlights how the RIS will “support 250 staff and 21 radiologists across five sites, with 300 additional RIS viewing logins across the trust”.
From AGFA Healthcare, regional president for Northern Europe Robert Anello states that looking ahead, the solution is designed to “grow as [the trust] grows along their regional requirements”, with future planned developments including moving to a web-based application; supporting flexibility to use the solution on any workstation; and enhancing core technologies such as streaming.
In other news from AGFA Healthcare, June saw us cover the news of a deal with Alliance Medical to introduce a suite of cloud based solutions including enterprise imaging, collaboration, workflow, artificial intelligence, and referral tools, to streamline the patient pathway.
Also from the region
In spring, we noted a pilot scheme at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals trialling the use of VR training for medical students, using a computer-generated scenario in which participants can virtually interact with patients, administer tests, ask patients questions, interact with other medical professionals, diagnose and provide medication.
Taking a wider look at Yorkshire, HTN reported how NHS England has partnered with the North East Business Resilience Centre on a pilot project designed to tackle cyber threats by delivering ‘digital health checks’ for small and medium businesses in the social care sector in the North East and Yorkshire.
We shared how South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Beckett University are collaborating on a project aiming to digitise the trust’s adult ADHD and autism service; and we highlighted the launch of a new digital data centre by Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
Our feature series across April to June explored the landscape of digital and data in each of the ICS regions in 2024; click here to read our coverage of Yorkshire.
