Largest Single Instance RIS in the UK?

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Here’s an interesting question for the Radiology ‘pub’ - who has the largest single instance RIS in the UK at the moment?

Obviously Hitachi with NBSS, then ?probably Alliance or InHealth (albeit Dynamics?), but which Trusts or consortii follow this with the more traditional Magentus, Soliton, APTVision, RISe or QDoc…?

Al.

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Hi Alex,

In Devon and Cornwall we have a shared RIS (Magentus), but not sure we have the population of some of the other consortiums or “3rd parties”.

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This is a super interesting question. I don’t believe the NBSS is a single RIS - there are local instances at most of the screening centres. And largest by population or largest by studies (though there will be a correlation).

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Back in the day when I worked in Hereford, Wales had Radis as an all-Wales RIS. I’m over the other side of the country so I’m not up to date with the current Welsh position.

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Hi yes Wales has RadIS. Wales is moving over to Soliton.

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Declaring a vendor interest here as I work with Aptvision | The “RIS” is actually used across the whole of Northern Ireland as the basis for the Vaccination Management Scheduling service so that is a fairly sizeable install at a national level. It is also currently being deployed in its original RIS configuration across several Trusts in West of England as a single multi-tenant instance and once complete will also be fairly large. It definitely seems to an emerging requirement for Imaging Networks to be able to easily orchestrate both scheduling and reporting across connected providers that now allows the patient to pick and choose where they will get their procedures performed and for this it is much easier to consolidate availability across the network into a singular, shared RIS platform. So I expect installs of RIS and the scope of RIS projects to continue to get larger either as a complementary workflow orchestration layer on top of departmental legacy RIS systems or more probably as a direct replacement in time for those legacy systems. For those that have been industry 25+ years like me you will recall the mantra that RIS is dead and EPR’s will take over…….in fact it seems to be the opposite and RIS will continue to be essential, facilitating coordination of diagnostics across multiple EPR’s as imaging networks transform how diagnostics are provided.