The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first of eight NHS trusts in the UK to deploy a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) from international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra.
Across Europe and the US, teleradiology has been successfully used as a modern method of diagnosing diseases, and online counselling has become an integral part of the medicine of the future. But what exactly is teleradiology, and why is it needed?