Guides
Practical guides for regulated operations, infrastructure planning, and technology decisions: written from delivery experience.
- Diagnostic display QA for radiology: a plain-language quality assurance guide A plain-language guide to diagnostic display quality assurance for radiology practices. What luminance, calibration, and DICOM GSDF conformance mean, how acceptance testing differs from ongoing QA, why ambient lighting matters in reading rooms, when clinical review displays differ from diagnostic displays, and a practical QA cadence to adopt. Read guide →
- Essential Eight for medical practices: a practical IT readiness guide A plain-language guide to the ACSC Essential Eight for GP and specialist practices. What the eight mitigation strategies mean in practice terms, why they now matter for accreditation and cyber insurance, what maturity levels are, and where to start. Read guide →
- IT Guide for Opening a New Radiology Practice Open a radiology practice without IT surprises at go-live. Australian guide: redundant networks, ACMA cabling, cloud vs on‑prem RIS/PACS, HL7 to referrers, vendor SLAs, and a practical opening checklist. Read guide →
- PACS migration checklist: how imaging practices change PACS without losing a day of reporting A practical PACS migration checklist for radiology and imaging practices. Why migrations go wrong, how to audit your archive, the questions to ask vendors, big bang versus staged prior fetch, parallel run validation, cutover planning around reading lists, and decommissioning without breaching retention obligations. Read guide →
- RACGP accreditation: the IT and information security readiness checklist A practical IT and information-security readiness checklist for the lead-up to RACGP accreditation. Access control and unique logins, audit logging, tested backups, secure messaging, device and patch management, MFA, privacy handling, and business continuity. Read guide →
More practical resources
New guides are added as they clear delivery review. The blog and the downloads hub carry the same practical detail in shorter form.