That PACS system had been developed for the US Veterans Administration by Loral. It featured a 20Gbyte RAID array which was portable - meaning you could sling it under a helicopter. Think a tall and wide rack of kit. I also remember going to dinner with a full bird colonel from the US military when he visited.
Another memory - thei digital X-ray sets were deployed on US carriers. They were more interested in X-raying the landing gear of Tomcats rather than sailors broken limbs. On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 05:29, John Hearns <[email protected]> wrote: > > You just need an indexing system that is > > versatile enough to work with the idea that some people are going to > > have multiple entries, and in an ideal world they would eventually all > > get merged, but life isn't like that. > My first job in London was working on an early radiology PACS system at > the HAmmersmith. > (Picture Archiving and Communications System) It used Macs and a dedicated > broadband network. > My job - to go through the images from the prototype/testing phase and > sort out duplicates and mis-labelled X-rays. > > > > I would start by identifying every data set you need as a healthcare > > provider, e.g. patient personal data, appointment data, pharmaceutical > > inventory, stock control, staff records, and so on, and create a set of > > minimum requirements that would go on to create a common API definition. > For radiology that is DICOM > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 22:34, Alex Macfie via GLLUG < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 13:28, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 22/07/2023 22:32, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: >>> >>> However, if we get a Conservative government, things are likely to >>> markedly change. Sunak and much of his cabinet are probably going to >>> be replaced before the election (since they see this as the only chance >>> of winning). Their replacement cabinet will certainly be open to the >>> possibility of a change from the MS brokenware that government has >>> suffered for years, and the idea of reduced licencing costs will be >>> appealing in the straightened times we're likely to have to endure. >>> >> At the risk of getting deep into politics, this is absolute nonsense. >> >> There have already been two changes of leader in the current Parliament. >> The Tories are not going to risk a third one, as it would only make them >> look even more of a joke than they are already. If there were to be a new >> leader, they would be another rich and out of touch right-winger who would >> have absolutely no interest in things like open source. It's something >> that's absolutely antipathetic to Tory ideology, which is that everything >> should be owned, preferably by Tory donors. In the unlikely event of the >> the Tories winning the next election, the resulting government, whether led >> by Sunak or A N Other, will be more of the same. The party would not be >> minded to replace someone who has just won them a general election against >> the odds. >> Tories don't genuinely care about reducing costs. They seem happy to >> divert public money to dodgy PPE contracts for companies run by their >> donors and friends. The Tory ideology is one of redistributionism — from >> ordinary people to the super-rich. This means they hate the idea of "free >> software" as it means there are no licence fees that they can give to their >> friends. >> >> Alex >> -- >> GLLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug >> >
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