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Three health trusts in south-west England are seeking a new picture archive and communications system (Pacs). The five-year agreement, valued at a potential £5m, is being handled by Bristol and Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium on behalf of the North Bristol trust, University Hospitals Bristol foundation trust and Weston Area …

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  1. andreas koch
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    Another messup coming

    8<--- and vendor neutral archive and associated services. --->8

    vendor neutral archive: because no one dares to touch the old SUN box the database is sitting on now, and of course to have the need for newiPads for everyone, without having to find your Word and Excel icons in a new place.

    8<--- A modern solution is required that will deliver streamlined and advanced workflow and includes close integration with the patient record to maximise information exchange and patient benefit. --->8

    Who ever said this sentence in earnest should be shot with dried cat's crap; it's a typical politico waffle with all the buzzwords and no meaning at all.

    Pity we won't hear all the failures of this. 5m won't cover half of it, and it will take 4 times as long and then the nurses will still have to keep paper records (well, just in case...), so the workload shifts some more towards administration and away from actually caring for patients.

    And all that because someone's golf buddy had an idea how to justify spending some dosh on bling and skim some off at the same time...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Vendor neutral?

    My arse!

    They will buy the same PACS system all the others have bought - simply because its the one bit of the NHS program thats actually worked for everyone.

    Either that or they are stupid.

    Hmmmm hang on a sec....

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  3. adam payne
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    Cheap at half the price!

    What's the betting this system will be at least three years late, will cost 30 million and when it's deployed it won't be fit for purpose?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    PACS.

    There are quite a few vendors out there with PACS experience. The infrastructure is well known and well established, and there are lots of skills in it.

    As AC noted, it's really pretty stable, and does what it says on the tin. Based on DICOM standards that have been around for years, but scaled up properly and done right.

    This is just a procurement exercise as the old PACS contracts have expired, and it's time to get the new ones in.

    £5m ballpark could cover it, as a lot of the support skills could be handled in-house.

    I'm betting on this one actually being on schedule, about on budget, and working just nicely.

    Andreas: VNA is chosen for storage scalability. And actually, speaking as someone who has peered at PACS, the long line about what it's for does state exactly what it does (albeit, as you say, in buzzword speak, which is everso popular)...

    I'd say you're not likely to hear how it fails, because it won't.

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