It ' s Just Another Manic Monday...And Tuesday...And Wednesday...

I ' m still here in Accra, this morning working on some stuff before my appointment with the Head of Nuclear Medicine here at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. More on nuclear things momentarily.We hit the ground running on Monday, after the emotional trip to Cape Coast the day before. We were to meet with the Head of IT and tour the facilities (Brian tells me there is a server room that is right up there with most he ' s seen) and speak with those knowledgeable in a locally-developed mini-EHR designed for the OB-GYN Department. But due to various scheduling conflicts and the Head of PACS IT taking ill, we ultimately met simply with one of the designers directly, who demonstrated the capabilities of their software. I was most impressed; this system is as good as any in-house developed product I ' ve seen, and better than most.I delivered my PET/CT talk to the Radiology residents yesterday morning, and they were as attentive as any audience I ' ve had over the years, again asking some of the most insightful questions. Imagine how much good they could do with the actual scanner itself!Thanks to Dr. B. ' s monitoring of misbehavior of a worklist, I ' ve discovered a glitch in the Merge PACS 7.0.x software. Worklists are comprised of a worklist " frame " (my term, but it helps me understand the new structure) and blocks that actually do the heavy lifting of determining which exams show up on the list. A worklist can contain multiple blocks, so one can create a list of all CT ' s and MR...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs