We use Novarad for our PACS system. Anyone else use them? Anyone have alternatives from using GE and PACS vendor for the interface to add the radiology link to GE?
First we don't use NovaRad we use GE-PACS-IW for our PACS system, but i wanted to share how we are looking at doing it.
Currently our organizations primary EMR is Cerner (our Cardiology clinic is still on CPS). We send a result feed with the link to the study in our PACS system. This creates a few obstacles with Auditing and Access Privileges. The only way we were able to get it working is by including an anonymous username/password in the link. The account is setup in the PACS system to be read only but still presents a problem from auditing...in the audit log it shows Anonymous user and not the actual person viewing the image. This forces us to compare audit logs from 2 systems to see who was in the patients chart at X-time when the images were opened in PACS at X-time.
We are investigating how to take this weblink that's generated as a result and somehow securely present it in the CPS application.
Hope this gives you some ideas, this is a tricky one to figure out.