Synopsis TBC

The presentation describes the Greater Manchester journey to procuring a single instance PACS and VNA system as part of a Diagnostics Digital Enterprise Solution; the lessons learned from the experience, and from these some views from GM as to how we would recommend a network procurement may be best approached.

The presentation also focuses on how the success of this collaborative programme has facilitated the smooth and rapid creation of the Greater Manchester Imaging Network, how the Network has developed to date, and our plans for maturing the network in the future.

The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics is the UK’s largest dedicated healthcare AI programme.  Based in Scotland and funded by Innovate UK, this £20m+ national programme operates over 35 research and AI evaluation projects with over 30 global partners, including NHS Scotland. 

Over a third of those projects focus upon cancer screening and detection in radiology and pathology imaging.  Together, we’ll examine how the technology examined by iCAIRD could be used within oncology pathways and discuss how we can adopt those innovations within the NHS, quickly and at scale.

Main Sponsor

Chris Scarisbrick – Sectra Sales Director will introduce the session and join the Q&A

Case Study

With traditional imaging and pathology workflows typically taking two weeks, from sample collection and preparation to diagnosis, we pose the question; how can we help? When we also consider the numerous other challenges currently facing the healthcare sector, including the immense pressure on staffing, the need for support and change is clear.

Through the implementation of new, innovative technologies, these workflows can be streamlined and condensed down to a number of hours, dramatically improving patient care and outcomes. Join our session to hear our CIO, Jonathan Bridges and James Tear, Unstructured Data Solutions, Dell Technologies discuss more about our initiative for the National Pathology Imaging Cooperative. They will delve into how bringing clinical, radiologic, and genomic data into the Cloud enables organisations to optimise patient outcomes and enable more effective collaboration between healthcare professionals, wherever they are located. 

Healthcare services around the world face growing resource and regulatory challenges of deploying multiple AI technologies. Platform technology is well known in many industries and has the potential to revolutionise deployment within healthcare.

Understanding the established workflow is a critical step towards effective integration, allowing organisations, healthcare professionals and subsequently their patients to leverage the benefits of AI collectively through one single platform.

Put simply, networks are a group or system of interconnected people or things. They can play many roles in healthcare delivery: driving change and collaboration across complex organisational structures; enabling the best service for patients and staff, and uniting professionals with common clinical interests.

Networks, if effectively supported and harnessed, can offer solutions to tackling systemic and complex problems faced by an NHS beholden to financial pressures and chronic staff shortages. The Quality Standard for Imaging Networks (QSIN) is consistent with the national direction to develop imaging networks.

Imaging networks have been developed throughout the UK with seven network regions in England and one network in each for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. An imaging network may also be formed by a company to oversee all the imaging departments it has or an informal group of imaging entities who want to form a network.

This session provides delegates with an overview of QSIN , covering its  development , the standards and the colleges’  ( Royal College of Radiologists and the College of Radiographers )  vision for its development .

Ensuring key imaging is available for clinical care along the patients journey is part of the vision of providing a content rich digital health and care record. Wales has adopted a Once for Wales common approach to scan somewhere - share everywhere.  

Panel discussion 

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