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ALERT: Sectra PACS Downtime - Tuesday 17th September - 05:00-09:00
Lee Palacios
15 days ago
Hi,
We have received a notification from UHSx to advise that Sectra PACS will be unavailable from 05:00-09:00 on Tuesday 17th September:
Sectra will be upgrading the PACS to the latest version next Tuesday morning. During the upgrade, the normal PACS client will be unavailable, but users will be able to access the Business Continuity system (BCPACS available here: https://svsshs01.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ids7/). BCPACS contains the most recent 3 months of imaging.
Modality worklists should continue to function throughout the downtime as these are provided by a local server.
BCPACS does not allow us to report into PACS so we will provide urgent reports using our existing downtime template (these details will be sent directly to the on-call radiologist team working overnight).
The upgrade mainly implements some bug fixes and improvements to application permissions. We are not anticipating any significant changes to core PACS functionality, some minor improvements to the reporting workflow will be shared with the relevant teams.
Additional comms will be shared with the wider trust this week and on Monday.
Lastly, it is expected the upgrade itself will take approximately 90 minutes with the remainder of the change window reserved for trust testing. As soon as this testing is completed, we will release the system back to all users.
Thanks