Regarding the NIR centralised registry. Is that going to contain any radiology/imaging documentation or is that more of an index to help know which community members have data for which patients?

Cherie_Norton · 21 August 2026 10:47

The centralised registry will be an index of pointers to metadata rather than storing images. NRL is one direction we could take; however, we are also considering other solutions that solve the same problem

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Regarding the NIR centralised registry. Is that going to contain any radiology/imaging documentation or is that more of an index to help know which community members have data for which patients?

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