Search Tag: PACS
Radiologists as Data Scientists of Medicine
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
Sectra Signs Enterprise-Wide PACS Contract with University of Pennsylvania Health System
2017 30 Mar
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) 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... Read more
Seven Steps to a More Efficient and Resilient IT Solution
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.” In this... Read more
The Road to Making Peer Review an Added Value—Not an Added Burden
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
US Tele-Mammography Group Selects Sectra as its Mammography Enterprise Imaging Vendor
2016 10 Nov
International medical imaging IT company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that Women’s Imaging Associates has entered into a multi-year agreement to deploy Sectra Breast Imaging PACS for radiologist interpretation. The solution features intelligent pre-fetching and auto-routing of images from the provider sites to the radiologist reading locations, and... Read more
Efficiency Gains in Cancer Care:Dutch Pathology Department is The First in The World to Go Digital
2016 27 May
Pathologists at University Hospital Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) in the Netherlands have become among the first in the world to review histology cases for primary diagnostics digitally. The completely paper- and glass slide-free pathology review workflow, enabled by Sectra Pathology PACS, provides the pathologists with access to both digital pathology and... Read more
University hospital in Finland Invests in Digital Pathology from Sectra
2016 04 May
Kuopio University Hospital will be Finland’s first fully digital pathology department following its investment in Sectra’s IT solution for efficient storage, review and sharing of digital pathology images. The Diagnostic Imaging Center at Kuopio University Hospital is thereby extending its existing solution for handling radiology images (PACS) to also... Read more
Large US Hospital Chain To Expand Sectra PACS Into A VNA For Enterprise Imaging
2016 13 Apr
International medical imaging IT company Sectra(STO: SECT B) announces that ProMedica has entered into a six-year contract to expand its current Sectra PACS into a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA). This will provide enterprise image management capabilities including viewing, distribution, and archiving of one million radiology, cardiology, dermatology and... Read more
The Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust, UK, Implement Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging
2016 22 Mar
Solution will provide imaging connectivity supporting greater cooperation across main and outlying Trust sitesEnterprise Imaging for Radiology is a completely unified imaging platform that provides image management, reporting, advanced image processing and integration of clinical information.The solution will support image sharing and consolidate images... Read more
Large London Hospitals Invest in Imaging IT Solution from Sectra
2016 21 Mar
The IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a ten year contract to supply a fully hosted private health cloud service for radiology, breast imaging and a wide range of other medical imaging to Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. Through this investment the hospitals will benefit from communicating medical... Read more
