A. General & Economic Assessment;
1.PACS Capability
a. Business, products, services provided by vendor
b. staff numbers--with qualifications employed
c. Customers with date of contract award with date of completion

2. Financial
a. audited accounts,

b. guarantees ,

c.bank accounts
3. InsuranceDetails
a. Employers liabilty Insurance
b. Public liabilty Insurance
4. Disputes/Legal Proceedings Details
B. Technical Assessment of Radiology PACS Solution
1. Ability to integrate with PAS for demographic & ADT using HL7 (Is PIR Profile of IHE supported?)
2. Ability to integrate with RIS using HL7 (Is SWF profile of IHE supported?)
3. Ability to support a Desktop Integration with a 3rd party RIS
4. Culling of image data based on local policy--Describe
5. Ability to reuse existing diagnostic workstation hardware
6. Ability to work in a brokerless PACS enviornment (RIS providing the DMWL)
7. Ability to receive & store & display images in DICOM format from all radiology modalities--CR, CT, MRI, US, NM, PET-CT, Fluroscopy, etc

Are Basic Image Review, Nuclear Medicine Display & Mammography Image Profiles of IHE? Is DICOM Blending PresentationState Supported?
8. Ability to integrate with 3rd party plug-ins--Orthotemplating, 3D, CAD etc. (Is DICOM 118 standard supported?)
9. Ability to store & display radiology reports (Is CDA display supported. Is Displayable Report Profile of IHE supported?)
10. Ability to be part of an EPR by adopting XDS-I?
11. Ability to share images beyond organizational boundaries--CDs, DICOM Push, IEP & XCA-I
12. Support Teaching Files creation (Is TCE profile of IHE supported?)
13. Support Radiation Dose Monitoring(Is REM Profile of IHE supported?)
14. Are there any known conflicts with other software applications that are commonly used in NHS hospitals on PCs?
15. How does the vendor deal with Private DICOM tags?
16. How will PACS data be handed over/migrated over to a new vendor at the end of contract? Will the product support Image Manager/Archive profile of IHE in future?
18. Is it possible to launch the exam within PACS via a url containing the accession no.

19. What kind of SLAs does the vendor provide.

20. Will an itemised breakdown of deployment, revenue & future costs be provided?

21. Previous experience with a large scale PACS migration of >2million exams. Brief account of the experience.

C. Technical Assessment of Radiology Informatiom System
1. Ability to integrate with PAS for demographic & ADT using HL7 (Is PIR Profile of IHE supported?)
2. Ability to integrate with PACS using HL7 (Is SWF profile of IHE supported?)
3. Ability to support a Desktop Integration with a 3rd party PACS
4. Ability to work in a brokerless PACS environment (RIS providing the DMWL)

5. Ability to create & display radiology reports (Is CDA display supported. Is Displayable Report Profile of IHE supported?)
6. Ability to be part of an EPR by adopting XDS?
7. Ability to share reports beyond organizational boundaries-- IEP & XCA
8. Are there any known conflicts with other software applications that are commonly used in NHS hospitals on PCs?
9. How will RIS data be handed over/migrated over to a new vendor at the end of contract?

10. What kind of SLAs does the vendor provide.

11. Will a itemised breakdown of deployment, revenue & future costs be provided?

12. Are all workflow statuses & workflow priority required in NHS Radiology Workflow supported?

13. Is it able to integrate with a 3rd party Ordercomms using HL7 & CDA?

14. Is it possible to have a scanned request cards?

15. Does it have a notepad/scribbler function?

16. Does RIS provide a vetting worklist with vetting workflow function.

17. Does it have a configurable appointments diary?

18. Does it support NHS RIS appointments workflow?

19. Does it support NHS RIS Reception Workflow?

20. Does it support NHS RIS Exam Completion/Operators Workflow?

21. Does it support NHS RIS Reporting/Authorization Workflow?

22. Does it support NHS RIS Transcription Workflow?

23. Does it support NHS RIS MDTM Workflow with supplementary reports?

24. Does the system have flexible user definable worklists for vetting, reception, appointments, operator, dictation, transcription, authorization, MDTM etc

25. Does the system have a robust statistical package?