Adrian Midgley wrote:
>Round here, the view of the xray department is that xrays are stored
>in the department...I see no reason to think they will change when we
>go electronic, so I expect to access images using a URI and
>authentication. When the patient record moves from my practice to
>another, I don't want to be sending a copy of files held on image
>servers, I expect to send a pointer to them.
We have been doing exactly this for a number of years now, except that
Computer Services (my group) has taken over the function of archiving and
serving these images from Radiology and other services for consistency and
conservation of manpower.
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Jim Self
Manager and Chief Developer
VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
(http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)
