bbRad for the 'Any image, anywhere' vision

The “any image, anywhere” vision can be achieved through web data sharing. This is great for ad-hoc viewing but in most cases, having the image in your local PACS is required - and this is a messy and manual process, which is open to human error. Referral sites need the image locally to avoid constant switching between the radiologists’ application and the web application – including MDT meetings run on clinician workstations and simple comparisons on radiologist workstations.Having the image locally is also required to use existing work-practices such as RIS driving the PACS with desktop integration, voice recognition, orthopaedic templating, CAD and 3D processing.

Finally, the local image is definitely required at Cancer and Cardiac centres for forwarding to treatment planning systems, and cardiology PACS.

bbRad

Cypher IT provides a fully featured teleradiology solution called bbRad, which brings smooth, efficient workflow to the world of secure image transmission.

bbRad is Cypher's flagship product. It provides NHS-specific answers to following common questions

  • how do we get rid of all these CDs?
  • how do we securely send these images to other sites?
  • how do we upload all these studies onto our PACS?
  • how do we get the reports uploaded into RIS?

PACS providers' "teleradiolgy" offerings do not include the underlying infrastructure. That is left to individual Trusts to provide. bbRad provides this infrastructure, working in harmony with your PACS.

Its key benefit is that it does this whilst avoiding the need for significant investment in dedicated xDSL lines, special firewalls and onerous management overhead.

And all the while ensuring your Trust's compliance with the NHS Code of Connection, Caldicott Principles, and the Data Protection Act.

bbRad can also work without a PACS system, for example taking DICOM images from directly from CT/MR scanners, CR equipment, ultrasounds, etc."Any Image, Anywhere"

Our solution is fully flexible and bbRad is can be adapted to meet your specific workflow requirements and therefore significantly reduce manual intervention by the radiology staff. Put simply bbRad handles all the manual processes performed when sending & receiving images to and from another PACS system as described above.

Inter-operability

bbRad also inter-operates with third-party ad-hoc image transfer and image viewer solutions, such as PACSMail. This allows users of Cypher IT's bbRad teleradiology server to share DICOM studies with users of the Sybermedica PACSMail network. The joint solution combines PACSMail's DICOM messaging and viewing functions with bbRad's workflow solution to control the automated entry of images and reports directly into PACS / RIS. Studies can also be sent outbound from hospitals to PACSMails clients, for example medico-legal requests to solicitors.

This book is a Primer on PACS.

Digital Imaging: a Primer for Radiologists, Radiographers and Healthcare Professionals

It offers readers a clear, easy to understand introduction to the world of medical digital imaging.

It will help you understand the big picture - the systems, networking, information, and, perhaps most importantly, the changes in work practices that will inevitably come with a PACS system. If your hospital has or will have a PACS system (whether you're a radiologist, radiographer, nurse, network engineer, admin manager, director of radiology, surgeon, or other healthcare professional), this book will give you an accesible insight into PACS, making no assumptions about prior knowledge of principles, terms or jargon.

It is published by Cambridge University Press, edited by Jason Oakley, and can be purchased through Amazon by clicking here.