FOI 7658 - Teleradiology Services, Artificial Intelligence, PACS & RIS

November 2022

Teleradiology services

1. Does your Trust use Teleradiology services? If so, what is the cost of this service per annum? The costing is based on per case basis rather than an annual service costing.

2. What teleradiology provider you utilise i.e., Medica, 4ways, Everlight Radiology etc? Medica and TMC

3. The types of images outsourced and the total number of images in each type per annum Any urgent inpatient requests that have been scanned out-of-hours (request made in-hours), any urgent inpatient and A&E requests made and agreed when TMC/Medica cover out-of-hours. 

• 8337 CT image acquisition and reporting
• 174 CT colongraphy image acquisition
• 59 MRI out of hours reporting

 Artificial Intelligence

1. Please list any Artificial Intelligence software currently in use within your radiology department? Please include brand names, manufacturer. Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s Imaging department do not have any true AI at present. They do use BoneXpert – software that estimates developmental age from analysis of hand x-rays. Bonexpert’s website has AI dotted all over it but whilst the algorithm it uses was based on learning it does not continue learning in production.

 2. For each of the AI-based software products currently in use, please state whether:

1.  They are being used within the context of a research study or pilot project. If so when is this due to be completed?
2.  They have been purchased/commissioned by your organisation for routine clinical use. If so, how were they procured (e.g., framework agreement, singe purchasing contract etc) and how much is the yearly cost for each?

PACS & RIS

 1. Who provides your Radiology PACS system? GE

 2. Who provides your Radiology Information System (RIS)? Soliton