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There’s been a lot of learning about what can and can’t be done with different forms
of RIS deployment. I think one of the big things that was done differently as part of
the LSP programme was that in – what is now CSC land – the wide availability of
shared RIS or common RIS domains, and the ease with which that enabled reporting across
organisations, shared reporting, access to other reports, is something that the rest
of the country would do well to look at.
Increasingly patients are having their care delivered across a variety of settings, and
at each of those settings an imaging data set will be looked at and a view taken of
it, whether it’s a report, a secondary report or part of an MDT; and I think that the capturing
of that and the maintaining of a single source of truth as the most up to date report (MDT
enabled if necessary) is something that we need to do I think much more better and much
more consistently than we have done.
So I think as well as the obvious workflow benefits, things like structured reporting,
voice recognition, rapid messaging and a really slick interface with the local electronic
patient record, getting a RIS that in so far as possible is able to work across organisations
is really important.