1. Trust builds cheaper record sharing system.
- Author
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Saran, Cliff
- Subjects
MEDICAL care ,STRATEGIC planning ,DATABASES ,PATIENTS - Abstract
United Bristol Healthcare Trust has begun the next stage in its ambitious project to provide a central repository for patient records. The trust is hooking up its ultrasound scanners to its EMC-based storage area network and network-attached storage to give healthcare professionals real-time remote access to the scans via PCs running Internet Explorer. This is the latest development in the Bristol trust's content management strategy pioneered by Narasimha-Moorthy Shastry, a professor in the directorate of radiology at Bristol Royal Infirmary. Shastry said the Bristol trust's system had led to considerable savings on commercially available products for archiving and deploying x-rays and other forms of patient images electronically. Using a standards-based approach, Shastry has been able to develop a cheaper system than those adopted in other trusts in the South West.
- Published
- 2004