Magentus CRIS Integration

Trusted by NHS organisations, imaging networks, diagnostic providers, and healthtech innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle CRIS integration, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We build secure, scalable integrations for electronic referrals, radiology dashboards, AI-assisted reporting, patient communications, clinical decision support, and regional imaging services.

Our team combines radiology workflow knowledge with expertise in HL7 FHIR, HL7 messaging, DICOM, REST APIs, identity management, and clinical safety. We ensure requests, images, reports, and alerts remain accurately linked to the correct patient, examination, and clinical team.

Understanding Magentus CRIS

Magentus CRIS is a radiology information system used across NHS and wider healthcare environments. It supports imaging workflows ranging from individual departments to multi-organisation and national-scale services.

The platform manages requests, patient information, referral vetting, scheduling, examinations, post-processing, reporting, and communication with GPs and other referrers. This supports largely paperless workflows while maintaining visibility from referral to final report.

CRIS can operate as a desktop or cloud-based platform and forms part of Magentus’ wider radiology portfolio alongside Evolution vRIS. Its configurable architecture supports reporting, resource management, collaboration, and interoperability.

Magentus AI Connect can also link third-party algorithms with live radiology workflows, helping teams identify potentially urgent studies and prioritise reporting workloads.

Our Magentus CRIS Integration Process

We begin with structured discovery involving radiology, clinical, operational, digital, technical, and governance stakeholders. Together, we define imaging pathways, users, data requirements, safety constraints, and intended outcomes.

Typical integrations include electronic imaging requests, demographic synchronisation, appointment information, examination updates, contextual viewer launch, AI tools, report distribution, patient communications, and analytics.

We map identifiers and information throughout the imaging lifecycle, including NHS numbers, local identifiers, referrals, procedures, appointments, accession numbers, worklists, examination statuses, reports, amendments, alerts, and acknowledgements.

Architecture may use HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, DICOM, DICOMweb, integration engines, secure web services, contextual launch, or event-driven messaging. We define responsibilities across CRIS, PACS, VNA, EPR, PAS, modalities, and connected applications.

Authentication can support single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, NHS CIS2, service accounts, and role-based access.

Reusable components accelerate delivery, including HL7 parsers, FHIR handlers, DICOM connectors, identity-matching services, and routing pipelines. Secure testing validates referrals, patient matching, appointments, accession handling, reports, permissions, audit trails, failure recovery, and downtime reconciliation.

Before launch, we coordinate acceptance testing, clinical safety review, deployment, training, and documentation. After go-live, we monitor data flows, resolve issues, and maintain compatibility with CRIS and NHS changes.

Benefits of Magentus CRIS Integration

Clinicians gain faster access to requests, appointments, examination status, images, and reports within established workflows. Radiology teams receive clearer electronic referrals, supporting more effective vetting and reducing clarification.

Scheduling and communication integrations improve appointment coordination, preparation instructions, cancellations, and rescheduling. Radiographers benefit from accurate patient and procedure information, while radiologists gain connected reporting, viewing, AI, and decision-support tools.

Patients benefit from smoother pathways and fewer delays between referral, booking, imaging, reporting, and follow-up.

Operational teams gain visibility of demand, waiting times, utilisation, backlogs, cancellations, turnaround times, and capacity. Regional networks can support shared reporting, cross-site scheduling, and consistent workflows.

For healthtech vendors, CRIS integration provides reusable, standards-based access to established NHS radiology environments.

Why Choose 6B for Magentus CRIS Integration?

6B designs around the complete radiology pathway, keeping information accurate and traceable from referral through results delivery.

Our specialists understand HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, DICOM, DICOMweb, APIs, integration engines, secure web services, and event-driven messaging.

We manage complex terminology and coding requirements, including procedure catalogues, modality codes, laterality, urgency, examination status, report types, amendments, and system mappings.

Reusable message handlers, DICOM connectors, matching services, authentication flows, transformation frameworks, validation tools, and monitoring components accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

Security, governance, and privacy are embedded through encryption, role-based access, permissions, audit logging, data minimisation, and sensitive-information controls.

We support DCB0129 and DCB0160 through hazard management, validation, alerting, reconciliation, downtime procedures, and operational controls.

From discovery to maintenance, 6B provides one accountable partner for AI integration, operational resilience, and dependable NHS radiology integration.

Magentus CRIS Integration FAQs

What is Magentus CRIS?

Magentus CRIS is a radiology information system used to manage imaging workflows. It supports request and patient management, referral vetting, scheduling, post-processing, reporting, and communication with referring clinicians.

Can Magentus CRIS integrate with third-party systems?

Yes. CRIS can form part of a connected imaging environment involving EPR, PAS, order communications, PACS, VNA, modality, reporting, AI, and analytics systems. Available interfaces depend on the organisation’s CRIS version, configuration, and supplier agreements.

What information can be exchanged with CRIS?

An integration may exchange patient demographics, imaging referrals, clinical details, appointments, procedure codes, accession numbers, examination statuses, reports, amendments, alerts, and acknowledgements.

Which radiology workflows does CRIS support?

CRIS supports the pathway from imaging request and patient management through vetting, scheduling, examination processing, reporting, and communication with GPs or other referrers. It can support both individual departments and larger multi-organisation services.

Can CRIS integrate with PACS and imaging modalities?

Yes. CRIS can be connected with PACS, vendor-neutral archives, modalities, and modality worklists so that patient, request, accession, examination, image, and reporting information remains aligned throughout the imaging pathway.

Can Magentus CRIS support multi-site radiology services?

Yes. Magentus describes CRIS as scalable from individual imaging departments to consortia and national installations, with interoperability across multiple organisations.

How do you keep a Magentus CRIS integration clinically safe?

We use patient and examination-matching controls, procedure-code validation, message acknowledgements, role-based access, audit trails, exception handling, reconciliation, and downtime procedures. We also support applicable DCB0129 and DCB0160 clinical safety responsibilities.

How long does a Magentus CRIS integration take?

Timescales depend on the number of workflows, available interfaces, procedure mappings, PACS and modality connections, supplier coordination, governance approvals, and testing requirements. A focused interface may take several weeks, while a regional imaging integration may take several months.

Readiness checklist for Magentus CRIS Integration

Define the radiology workflows and use cases your integration will support, such as requesting, vetting, scheduling, image access, reporting, AI prioritisation, patient communication, or analytics.
Identify the CRIS, EPR, PAS, order communications, PACS, VNA, modality, AI, and third-party systems involved in each workflow.
Confirm which HL7 messages, FHIR resources, RESTful APIs, DICOM services, contextual-launch methods, or integration-engine connections are available within the target deployment.
Map patient identifiers, referrals, appointments, accession numbers, procedure codes, studies, examination statuses, reports, amendments, and acknowledgements across connected systems.
Confirm how imaging procedure catalogues, modality codes, body sites, laterality, urgency, report statuses, and clinical alerts will be mapped and validated.
Define which system will act as the source of truth for demographics, referrals, appointments, examination status, images, reports, and report amendments.
Confirm authentication, authorisation, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, role-based access, organisation context, encryption, service-account, and audit-logging requirements.
Prepare governance and clinical safety documentation, including the lawful basis, DPIA, DSPT position, and applicable DCB0129 or DCB0160 responsibilities.
Develop a testing plan covering synthetic data, duplicate referrals, cancellations, patient merges, unavailable modalities, PACS downtime, amended reports, AI failures, critical findings, peak volumes, and clinical user acceptance.
Agree deployment, training, monitoring, incident management, supplier coordination, interface change control, upgrades, and ongoing support arrangements before production go-live.