Search Tag: PACS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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