Search Tag: PACS

Enterprise Imaging

2023 27 Jul

It is widely acknowledged that Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA), and Enterprise Imaging Solutions have revolutionised the storage, sharing, interpretation, and management of medical images. As technology advances and the demand for data sharing increases, image management solutions are experiencing new...Read more

IMAGING Management

2022 11 Jul

Estonia’s Pildipank and Agfa HealthCare are strengthening and extending their relationship, by moving the national shared Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) to the Enterprise Imaging platform. New functionalities will deliver key benefits, including advanced viewing capabilities, enhanced collaboration between healthcare providers, reduced...Read more

IMAGING Management

2022 05 Apr

We are proud to share that the recently published Middle East & Africa PACS 2022 report by KLAS Research highlights Agfa HealthCare as one of the most frequently considered vendors in the Middle East and Africa. The Middle East has a high-performing PACS market, with overall customer satisfaction driven by vendors’ ability to deliver stable,...Read more

IT Management

2022 08 Feb

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  has announced that its radiology module for enterprise imaging, Sectra PACS, has won the prestigious customer satisfaction award Best in KLAS. It has been ranked number one by healthcare providers for the ninth consecutive year in the US, third consecutive year in Canada, and for...Read more

Enterprise Imaging

2021 12 Nov

According to a recent study published in  Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology , researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA) embedded a radiologist-technologist communication system into their medical system’s picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to enhance patient care. The researchers used the system to determine how...Read more

Enterprise Imaging

2021 17 Jun

TeleConsult Europe and Agfa HealthCare collaborate to realize ambitions: TeleConsult Europe (TCE) is a teleradiology company established in 2007 by a group of Dutch radiologists. TCE provides teleradiology services 24/7 to hospitals in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries. To support its service provision and...Read more

Enterprise Imaging

2021 20 Jan

We are very proud to share that by scoring above industry average on all surveyed aspects, Agfa HealthCare receives high overall score for its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology Platform in Spanish-Speaking Latin America. As such the platform sets the performance bar for this region. Agfa HealthCare scores above industry average on all surveyed aspects...Read more

Executive Health Management

2021 20 Jan

We are very proud to share that by scoring above industry average on all surveyed aspects, Agfa HealthCare receives high overall score for its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology Platform in Spanish-Speaking Latin America. As such the platform sets the performance bar for this region. Agfa HealthCare scores above industry average on all surveyed aspects...Read more

IMAGING Management

2020 19 Oct

Cybersecurity issues have been affecting the healthcare sector in recent years. As the use of the internet has expanded over the last two decades, hospitals worldwide have also adopted technology. Patient health information and electronic health records are now used routinely in healthcare.    However, while this adoption of technology is a positive...Read more

Cybersecurity

2020 19 Oct

Cybersecurity issues have been affecting the healthcare sector in recent years. As the use of the internet has expanded over the last two decades, hospitals worldwide have also adopted technology. Patient health information and electronic health records are now used routinely in healthcare.    However, while this adoption of technology is a positive...Read more

IMAGING Management

2019 02 Dec

Affidea and GE Healthcare sign a $100 million technology partnership agreement for innovative imaging fleet, digital workflow solutions and contrast media GE Healthcare and Affidea , the pan-European leader in advanced diagnostic imaging, outpatient and cancer care services, have signed a multi-year agreement to deploy imaging and digital technologies...Read more

Executive Health Management

2019 26 Aug

Summary: Health data holds the promise of healing a plethora of healthcare operational woes. Saluscoop looks at how we can make data work for provider and patient.   More and More Data for a Healthier Society   We are experiencing a period of data explosion: the digitalisation of health records, the increasing use of smartphones, portable...Read more

IMAGING Management

2019 10 Jun

Advanced visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider, TeraRecon , today announced that it has reached agreement with Insignia Medical Systems to make its EnvoyAI™ platform available to Insignia’s vast PACS and Regional Image Sharing Platform (RISP) networks currently running in over 200 United Kingdom (U.K.) healthcare sites. ...Read more

IMAGING Management

2019 10 Apr

A new initiative launched by the ACR Data Science Institute aims to empower radiologists to develop artificial intelligence ( AI ) algorithms at their own institutions, with the use of their own patient data, t o meet their own clinical needs . The institute's ACR AI-LAB™ is a data science toolkit designed to help radiologists l earn...Read more

IMAGING Management

2019 19 Mar

Researchers in the U.S. performed an objective and subjective evaluation of a large, academic radiology department's transition to electronic health record (EHR)-centred workflow. Multiple metrics were compared from before and after the move to EHR-driven workflow. Results show that moving radiology workflow to the EHR improved efficiency, was favourable...Read more

IT Management

2019 31 Jan

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company   Sectra  continues to be the #1 rated PACS and is awarded the prestigious customer satisfaction award ‘ Best in KLAS ’. For the sixth continuous year, Sectra has been named ‘Best in KLAS’ in the US for   PACS (Large Hospital/IDN)   with a score of 94 out of a possible 100. The distinction...Read more

IMAGING Management

2019 30 Jan

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in healthcare , such as in enhancing the performance and accuracy of diagnostic tools and disease risk prediction algorithms. And while radiology is among the medical specialities most primed to incorporate AI into clinician workflow, it appears that many radiologists are not even sure...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 02 Oct

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  will install its radiology and cardiology PACS throughout South Dakota-based Regional Health. The Sectra solution, integrated with the Epic EMR, will ensure high system availability and reliability throughout the five hospital, twenty-five clinic organization. “Nearly...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 02 Aug

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  will install its enterprise imaging PACS throughout Stanford Health Care (SHC) and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to support clinical and research imaging needs of the organization. The Sectra solution – integrated with Epic Radiant – will ensure business continuity, high system...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 04 Jul

In his book “Hit Refresh,” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, Inc., reveals that new challenges in the tech world make it necessary for the company to rediscover its soul – what made it unique. He posits that artificial intelligence (AI) is the tool that will help Microsoft transform to meet these challenges. Radiology is facing similar crossroads...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 05 Jun

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  has been awarded a contract to install its enterprise imaging PACS throughout Sanford Health. The Sectra solution, integrated with the Epic EMR, will enable access and sharing of images and information across the entire clinical pathway. The Sectra platform will offer consistency...Read more

IT Management

2018 31 May

TeraRecon  today announced that its first-of-kind Northstar™ AI Explorer has reached a new milestone that allows physicians to interact with individual measurements, markings, and findings created by AI image processing algorithms. To demonstrate the potential of these AI-assisted workflows, the company is previewing an end-to-end cardiac MR analysis...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 30 May

Artificial intelligence platform provider, EnvoyAI , recently completed their first successful customer installation at Wake Radiology  in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Wake Radiology is using the platform to provide physicians access to EnvoyAI’s growing marketplace of over 53 Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines that may be applied to their medical...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 10 May

EnvoyAI today announced a new integration with Insignia Medical Systems’ InSight PACS to provide AI-enhanced imaging workflows to customers. For initial launch in the UK, this integration provides best-of-breed, curated AI content available on the EnvoyAI platform within the PACS environment at multiple integration points.  These include AI results...Read more

IMAGING Management

2018 10 Jan

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  has signed a contract with Evidensia Sweden to deliver its solution for reviewing medical images, Sectra PACS . Evidensia is replacing its multiple IT solutions for imaging with a single solution in order to increase efficiency and collaboration across 54 hospitals and clinics....Read more

IMAGING Management

2017 02 Nov

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  enters into a partnership with Medical One Corporation, a leading provider of medical equipment in the Philippines. Through this distribution agreement, the Philippines healthcare market will gain access to efficient and patient-centered care with Sectra’s solutions.   “Healthcare...Read more

IMAGING Management

2017 11 Apr

Emerging technologies – such as machine learning and data analytics – will provide enormous opportunities for radiologists to augment and improve the quality of care they provide to their patients, according to a report to appear in Journal of the American College of Radiology. The report urges radiologists to maintain an active role in guiding the...Read more

IMAGING Management

2017 30 Mar

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company  Sectra  announces that the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) will install Sectra PACS in their healthcare enterprise. The Sectra solution, integrated with UPHS’s radiology information system, Epic Radiant, and the Epic EMR, will enable access and sharing of images and information...Read more

IT Management

2017 20 Feb

Efficient patient-centric care models require consolidating mountains of data. Acquisitions and regionalization further compound the challenge. How does an organization capitalize on what could easily become a liability?   Fredrik Gustavsson, Sectra CTO, sums up the answer simply, “Don’t buy technology. Buy solutions for your clinical pathways.”...Read more

IMAGING Management

2016 13 Dec

Most radiology departments currently use some form of formalized peer review and those that do not will soon as a result of upcoming legislation. However, many radiologists claim that previous attempts at peer review failed to accomplish the goals of identifying and meeting learning objectives, enhancing performance and improving patient outcome. Instead,...Read more