Marco Crispini, Cypher IT's Managing Director, said "this is a significant development. It truly enables the 'any image, anywhere' vision. Trusts will now be able to link not just to their regular, high-volume NHS and private sector neighbours, but also receive imaging from ad-hoc senders anywhere in the UK or world-wide with minimal fuss and virtually nil setup required. It enables smaller and mid-sized sites, whether NHS or not, to both refer patients to and seek advice from specialist centres of their choice."
Sybermedica's CEO Steve Gatley said "we are delighted with this new development which effectively creates a national mail service for DICOM study transmission. PACSMail allows users to post images via the network; bbRad then acts as the sorting office, automatically forwarding the images into the appropriate PACS/RIS workflow. Setting up a PACSMail account takes just a few minutes and the pay-per-use option allows sites to become users with no capital outlay."
About Cypher IT
Cypher IT is a healthcare solutions company from Southampton that has already enabled data sharing between NHS LSP PACS systems as well as non-LSP and independent sector PACS systems in the UK and abroad. Cypher IT's flagship bbRad product automates and manages the workflow for importing images and reports into hospitals' PACS and RIS systems. For further information, please visit www.bbrad.co.uk.
About Sybermedica
Sybermedica is a Cambridge-based healthcare IT company. Sybermedica's PACSMail service provides a simple, low cost way of sharing DICOM studies between registered users and has been widely adopted by private and independent sector providers to allow sharing of data over wide area networks. For further information, please visit www.sybermedica.com/pacsmail.