We have recently upgraded to a significantly faster, 100Mbit/s Internet connection. This has resulted in a marked reduction in the loading time for studies when using InteleViewer and InteleConnect.

Some practices and hospitals may require updates to their firewalls to allow for the change. If this is the case, please contact our IT department by telephoning (09) 523 7054, option 7.

Common Foot & Ankle Pathology Slides up for download from our meeting on the 15th of August 2012:

Dr Quentin Reeves, Diagnostic Radiologist
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Dr D. Benjamin Speedy, Sports Physician
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For those who are interested in our online image and report viewing services, InteleConnect and InteleViewer, please refer to their respective pages: InteleConnect and InteleViewer

If you require urgent access to your patients’ images during this time, please call our IT department on +64 9 523 6982 extension 265 or email pacs@srgmri.co.nz

Please be advised that IntelePACS and all related services, including InteleViewer, will be unavailable between the hours of 02:00 and 08:00 on the 20th of May 2012.

Should you require images during this time, we recommend that you cache studies on your local machine or request studies on CD from our reception.

For any enquiries regarding this matter, please phone our reception desk on (09) 523 7054

Surgeons operating in selected theatres at Ormiston Hospital and the Auckland Surgical Centre now have on-demand access to their patients’ studies from the OR computers.

In addition, Doctors working in ADHB hospitals are able to request images be transfered to the ADHB PACS from SRG. Please contact the ADHB PACS department to request studies.

We are hoping to have InteleViewer available in theatres and/or Image Transfer Facilities at both of the MercyAscot hospitals, Brightside Hospital, North Shore Hospital, Waitakere Hospital and Middlemore Hospital. Please email us at it@srgmri.co.nz for more information and progress updates.

We offer referring doctors online access to studies and reports with InteleViewer and InteleConnect. Whilst InteleViewer is only officially supported on Windows and Mac (10.6+) platforms, it is possible to run InteleViewer under Wine on Ubuntu.

The following tutorial comes with no guarantee and is simply a proof-of-concept. It is in no way endorsed by Intelerad Medical Systems, nor should it be used in a clinical environment.

The following steps were performed on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) desktop, running under Virtual Box in Mac OS 10.7. It should theoretically work with later releases of Ubuntu.

Firstly, you will need to install the Wine compatibility layer. To do so, open the Ubuntu Software Center and search for ‘Wine’. Next to the ‘Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer’ package, click ‘Install’

Once the installation of Wine is finished, open up your web browser and download the Windows 32-bit release of InteleViewer from SRG. The file can be found here. Save the file to somewhere accessible, such as your Desktop folder.

After the download has finished, open Terminal and do the following:

cd ~/Desktop/
wine InteleViewer-Setup-Windows-32-bit.exe

Wine will then be configured for first-use, and then load the InteleViewer installer. Continue through the installation as you normally would on a PC or Mac. The installer stalls on the ‘Shutting down dicom service etc’ part, but once it finishes it will continue just fine.

After the installation has completed, an InteleViewer icon will be on your Ubuntu desktop. Open InteleViewer as you normally would, and enter the settings for our PACS server.

You will now be able to log in using your SRG credentials & access your patients’ images and reports!

Again, please be aware that SRG will not be able to provide support for any users running InteleViewer in this way.

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Patient presented to the radiology department after falling onto their left elbow while walking on rocks. The patient symptoms included an acute onset of pain and loss of power on extension. The ultrasound scan demonstrated an avulsion fracture fragment displaced 4cm proximally from the olecranon process and retraction of the long head of the triceps tendon. There was an extensive partial thickness tear of the medial head of the triceps tendon with intact deep fibres and a large haematoma.

Although a surgical approach is the usual treatment for this injury, the patient opted for a conservative approach. On orthopaedic follow up, the patient had improved strength and movement.

Avulsion of the triceps tendon is the most uncommon of all tendon injuries. A triceps tendon rupture represents only 2% of all tendon ruptures. A rupture may be partial or complete, with or without an olecranon fracture. The most common mechanisms of injury are a fall onto an outstretched hand or a direct impact.