At Peterborough, we use the system for all our Trust based ordering and are currently looking at direct integration into GP systems to replace our locally built email direct ordering (which has been very successful).

This will also involve the role out of the ebooking in ICE to link with our RIS (HSS CRIS) and PACS (Agfa Impax).

Please contact me if you have any questions, suggestions or frustrations on the subject of radiology booking.   

Hi Paul,

Your posting is exremely relevant to some of the discussions I am involved in with Trust's. One of the comments which is frequently made is " Choose and Book will be used for GP Radiology requesting..."

Do you have any comments about that sort of statement and has it been a consideration of yours prior to deciding to use the eBooking functionality within ICE?

For your benefit, my view is that C&B is unable to offer the level of detail and flexibility for a Radiology Department making available a catalogue of requests for the GP's.

I would be interested to hear your views...

Dom (AHSL staff)

Thanks for the offer Paul.

We will be intorducing the Radiology component in the new Year. We also have HSS CRIS, so might have a few questions for you.

Regards

Dawn (Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundtion Trust)

Dawn

Feel free to contact me if you need help, i am looking forward to more radiology departments joining this site so that we can share ideas.

Paul

sorry, this may be a bit late to be of any use but we too are using webice / RIS integration and have a pilot GP site requesting radiology - 'all modalities'.

we do not currently offer the facility for them to choose- mearly request, but as a site we have abandoned the idea of Choose and Book for Radiology as the 'Choose' bit does not apply to Diagnostics ( I am reliably informed).

this does mean that a request can be appropriately Vetted and booked and the Updated information returned to webice. Not the booking info but the procedural part.

again, happy to discuss further and expand ideas.

max