Whether you’re developing a diagnostic imaging application, clinical viewer, AI-enabled analysis tool, patient-facing service, or reporting platform, 6B helps you integrate reliably with the PACS platforms used across NHS secondary care.
Our full-lifecycle service covers discovery, technical design, development, assurance, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We ensure your integration aligns with local imaging workflows, NHS interoperability standards, and the security and governance requirements associated with handling diagnostic images and related clinical data.
Understanding 6B’s Secondary Care PACS Integration Offering
Picture archiving and communication systems store, manage, and distribute medical images across NHS secondary care. They support critical diagnostic workflows by giving radiologists, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams access to imaging studies from modalities such as X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and mammography.
Integrating with PACS platforms can improve access to imaging, reduce manual data transfers, and enable more efficient diagnostic, reporting, and clinical review workflows. However, integration can be complex due to differences in vendor capabilities, local configurations, imaging formats, access controls, and links with related systems such as RIS and EPR platforms.
6B helps digital health vendors and NHS organisations integrate with leading imaging platforms such as Philips PACS, Sectra PACS, Insignia PACS, and AGFA Enterprise Imaging. Using standards including DICOM, DICOMweb, HL7 v2, and FHIR, alongside vendor-specific APIs, we deliver secure, scalable integrations designed for real-world NHS imaging environments.
Our Secondary Care PACS Integration Process
We begin by understanding your product, target PACS platforms, clinical use cases, and required data flows. During discovery, we map workflows such as image retrieval, study search, diagnostic viewing, image transfer, reporting access, and clinical notifications.
Our specialists then design and develop the integration using the most appropriate route, including DICOM, DICOMweb, HL7 messaging, FHIR APIs, or vendor-specific interfaces. We manage patient and study matching, imaging metadata, authentication, access controls, validation, and testing to ensure images and related information are exchanged accurately and securely.
Where required, we support Trust assurance, information governance, and clinical safety activities, including DSPT, DTAC, DPIAs, and DCB0129/0160 documentation. Following go-live, we provide monitoring, maintenance, and ongoing optimisation to keep your integration reliable, compliant, and ready to evolve.
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Readiness checklist for Secondary Care PACS Integration
- Define your integration goals, such as image retrieval, diagnostic viewing, study transfer, clinical review, AI analysis, or reporting access
- Identify the target PACS platforms and NHS Trust imaging environments for integration
- Document the required patient, study, series, image, report, and imaging metadata flows
- Confirm available integration routes, including DICOM, DICOMweb, HL7 v2, FHIR APIs, or vendor-specific interfaces
- Prepare patient and study-matching, authentication, role-based access, consent, and audit requirements
- Gather information governance and clinical safety requirements, including DSPT, DTAC, DPIA, and DCB0129/0160 considerations
- Confirm hosting, connectivity, image storage, testing, and approval requirements with Trust IT teams, imaging stakeholders, and PACS vendors