This page includes instructions for sending images online securely via VPN to UW Medicine Central Image Processing for the following locations:
- Harborview Medical Center
- UW Medical Center
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
- UW Neighborhood Clinics
- Regional Heart Center
Step 1: Complete Web form
- Using Internet Explorer, navigate to https://www.reachuw.org/.
- Log in using your hospital’s or group’s assigned key.
- Complete each section of the form. Fields with “*” are required.
- Click on ”Submit Request.”
Step 2: Send studies/images to TELERADWORKS, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week
- If Web access or the Web form is unavailable, print the form and fax to 206.744.6377. As a backup, a PDF file of the form will be sent to all VPN hospitals.
- Web form support: To request your login key or for any issues with the online Web form, please use the following contact information:
- Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.: Call the HMC PACS Helpdesk at 206.744.5928. You may also send an email to pacs_ris@uw.edu.
- Monday-Friday after hours, weekends and holidays: call the UW Medicine IT Helpdesk at 206.543.7012. Note: If you need a login key urgently, request that a ticket be assigned to the HMC PACS RIS Group.
Important notes
- Diagnostic reports still need to be faxed directly to the requesting UW Medicine clinic or department.
- When requesting images to be sent from HMC or UWMC to your hospital, please contact the file room that stores the archived images, or access the patient’s record in U-Link PACS to view the images:
- When using the Web form, it is not necessary to follow up with a phone call.
- If your facility does not yet have an established VPN connection with UW Medicine to send radiology images online, please contact George Cua at 206.744.4284 or gcua@uw.edu.