Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City has pioneered a lot of innovation. This time it’s digital pathology. They’re all in with research and consultation and dawning with primary diagnostic...

When it comes to digital medicine, digital pathology is very late to the game. But its time is coming. The benefits could be many: Bolstering the capabilities, efficiency and reach of individual patho...

A business case is often required to justify investments in new technology and this is indeed proving true with digital pathology. This paper and the attached calculator aim to help build a business c...

A vision starts with a need, quickly followed by a question—how can we accomplish it? At Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, the vision to initiate digital pathology coupled with fully i...

As in many change projects, the goal of implementing a digital pathology workflow is to increase efficiency and/or improve quality. Simply digitizing pathology slides does not accomplish either of the...

Digital pathology is proving to provide large benefits for healthcare providers, but growing adoption is now presenting these early adopters with new challenges. The ability of slide scanners to commu...

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs (RCPAQAP) offers a comprehensive range of External Quality Assurance (EQA) services to pathology laboratories around the wor...

Although most pathology departments have not yet made the transition to digital, many are actively evaluating the business case. Why?

Former Northern Cancer Alliance Pathology programme manager, and now cancer patient, David Bottoms, explains how nine trusts in the North East of England and North Cumbria managed to bring together fi...

At the beginning of 2016, University Hospital Utrecht (UMCU) became the first hospital in the Netherlands to digitize its entire pathology workflow. What has happened since? And how are they utilizing...

Many pathology departments stand on the threshold of adopting digital pathology. The creation of an appealing business case for digital pathology is necessary to justify the acquisition of the new har...

NHS laboratories across Greater Manchester have begun to go-live with technology that will transform how pathologists across the region collaborate — helping to improve timely diagnosis of cancers a...

Following a well-conceived preparation and implementation phase, the pathology department of the Dutch hospital Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) was in the midst of the testing and accep...

Many pathology labs are currently switching from glass-based reviews using a microscope, to a computer-based workflow for reviewing digital images. This transition is particularly strong in the Scandi...

In 1997, Clayton Christensen published his master piece, The Innovator’s Dilemma, describing how successful companies focus too much on customers’ current needs, and fail to adopt new technology t...

The use of digital pathology is steadily increasing and has helped the early adopters within the field of pathology globally to keep a safe social distance during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We...

Digital pathology is being adopted at a rapid rate, and within a few years, the majority of European hospitals will be able to exclusively use digital workflows for anatomic pathology. However, such a...

NHS laboratories across Greater Manchester have begun to go-live with technology that will transform how pathologists across the region collaborate – helping to improve timely diagnosis of cancers a...

NHS patients throughout the West Midlands are to benefit from a digital pathology programme, designed to help reduce cancer backlogs, transform services, and improve the speed and accuracy of cancer d...

The diagnosis of cancer is becoming more complex. The menu of tests and procedures has exploded as new technologies have evolved and clinicians are now demanding more from radiologists and pathologist...

At least seven scanner brands can now deliver pathology images in DICOM. Three of them already have DICOM in production at clinical labs together with Sectra Digital Pathology Solution, and more are t...

Greater Manchester has taken the next steps in its digitisation of pathology services, with the go-live of Sectra’s digital pathology solution at laboratories in Oldham and Salford.

Healthcare providers almost everywhere are now progressing their plans for the biggest transformational change that the centuries-old discipline has ever seen. Such progress is exciting and important�...

More efficient multidisciplinary team meetings, a greater opportunity to consult specialists at other hospitals, and a promising potential to allocate the workload during peaks. These are some of the...

Region Skåne has one of the largest digital pathology implementations in the world. The region produces over 800,000 histopathology glass slides per year, and the digitization came as a result of the...

University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) is the first hospital in the Netherlands—and one of the first hospitals in the world—that has completely switched to digital pathology. Not only do they ha...

Transitioning from analogue to digital imaging within routine diagnostics in pathology is a big change. In this webinar, we share our vast experience from being part of the digitization of labs around...

This webinar explores the digital pathology process that has begun at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Listen as Mayo representatives discuss their journey into digitizing their pathology solution.

Sectra provides an FDA-approved, clinical production system for digital pathology that can handle large volumes at peak performance. The solution allows pathologists to review images and carry out rep...

In this webinar, listen to first-hand implementation experiences from Region Skåne in Sweden, one of the world’s largest institutions using digital pathology for primary diagnostics, and Hospital f...

Ready to make the leap to digital pathology? In this recorded video webinar, learn from the team at University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, the why and how they accomplished this journey.

A programme to enhance patient diagnoses, speed up turnaround times and modernise pathology services has begun at Barts Health NHS Trust. The initiative will improve clinical collaboration and access...

The variation in diagnoses within pathology and cancer care is a well-known issue and as patients’ demands on healthcare increase, so do the demands on the quality of pathology diagnoses. To reduce...

So, you understand the benefits of Shifting to Digital Pathology — now what? In this webinar, you will learn how to take the next steps and build a business case to justify an investment for it. Mar...

Discover new developments in digital pathology and use the experiences of experts in the field for a smooth transition to go digital.

Promising results in basic AI research have shown the potential utility of AI algorithms within digital pathology. But what is needed to bring AI the last mile to clinical utility? In this webinar, yo...

Pathology departments play a key role in cancer care, but are currently under enormous pressure and face great challenges. Over the past decade, pathology departments have not only been subject to inc...

The adoption of digital pathology is evolving and is often divided into procurement of equipment for image acquisition (scanners) and software for image review (digital pathology solutions). This whit...

Digital pathology is expected to be the next big digitisation in healthcare and with good reason, writes Jane Rendall, UK managing director at Sectra.

Until recently, using a conventional light microscope has been standard practice for examining histopathology slides. However, the use of digital pathology is on the rise and many pathology labs are n...

The NIPACS+ Programme, commissioned by DHCNI, in Northern Ireland represents a pioneering effort to bring digital innovation to the field of pathology in the region, which performs around 40 million d...

Digital pathology is a key enabler of transformation and consolidation in pathology. But how far should we take the laboratory out of the hospital? Jane Rendall, UK managing director at Sectra, reflec...

Three years ago, I wrote the article “Why do I need a pathology PACS”, which was surprisingly widely discussed among early adopters of digital pathology. The reason I wrote the article was to info...

We welcome you to join Sectra at the 10th Digital Pathology & AI Congress (DPC) in London, UK (now in a larger venue – The Intercontinental Hotel, the O2). Visit Sectra at booth #35 to learn mor...

I am confident that the advantages of digital pathology outweigh those of the analog workflow using a microscope. However, the benefit of glass slides being ‘vendor neutral’ in terms of being revi...

Finland is a big country, but its population density is very low. So is the availability of pathologists; today, there are only 150 consultant pathologists in the country to cover the needs of the 5.5...

In the past year, I have attended a number of pathology shows to discuss digital pathology in general and Sectra’s solution in particular. A very common question is: “Why do I need a PACS and not...

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, or tumor boards, are a cornerstone of cancer care, and the practice of holding such meetings is increasing greatly. Several studies [1][2][3] clearly demonstrate...

Pathology, a labor-intense and historically heavily analogue discipline, is now undergoing digitization. Departments are investing in scanners for the digitization of images and pathologists are adapt...

With the granting of the first FDA approval for primary diagnosis, combined with several European labs performing most of their reviews digitally, the digitization of pathology has gained momentum and...

Since 2012, Linköping University Hospital has been at the forefront of medical imaging and part of a large Swedish innovation project tasked with exploring the potential digitization of pathology. Th...

Digital pathology has great potential to increase the efficiency and quality of anatomical pathology. A good digital workplace supports the daily work in everything from simple tasks, such as combinin...

Digitization – it’s a hot topic across pathology, especially as conversations about artificial intelligence and computer-assisted diagnosis add to the fire. But what does it actually mean to patho...

Region Värmland is a pioneer in enterprise imaging and is currently a world leader in managing and storing medical images, multimedia and patient information in a central, region-wide platform. In a...

In 2016, we at Sectra implemented our first image-based AI application in routine diagnostics at several labs. It was a computer aided detection tool, a KI67 cell counter that classifies positive and...

This article is an interview with Sten Thorstenson, senior consultant pathologist at Linköping University Hospital and a pioneer in the field of digital pathology.

A new national ambition to save thousands more lives through earlier cancer diagnoses requires an urgent NHS shift to digital pathology, writes Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.

We invite you to connect with Sectra at the Pathology Update conference 2024. We will be showcasing our comprehensive Digital Pathology Solution and answering your questions about everything from impl...

In this session (session 1 of the “Shifting to digital pathology series”), learn how to implement digital pathology from the advice of Elin Kindberg, Global Product Manager at Sectra, and...

Transitioning from whole slide to digital pathology isn’t just a shift—it’s a true evolution. In this episode, we follow up on Driving the transition to digital pathology article together with D...

Medical imaging in the field of oncology is advancing in leaps and bounds. It is becoming increasingly easy to manage images and data, making it possible to determine with greater accuracy which treat...

A working group from the National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden (NPCR) and the Regional Cancer Centers (RCC) worked with Sectra to develop a new digital solution that could become the national st...

Diagnostic review of pathology specimens is based on pathologists’ interpretation and measurements of the tissue. A number of formal measurement protocols, developed by the profession, are currently...

How does the evolving landscape of imaging digitization look through the eyes of Fredrik Gustavsson, CTO at Sectra? In a recent interview with Bill Russell from This Week Health at HIMSS ’23, Fr...

Pathology is embarking on a similar digitization journey as radiology has experienced. Despite some obvious differences in how the transition to digital images will occur, it is obvious that questions...

In recent years, tighter collaboration, or even a merger, between radiology and pathology has been frequently discussed within medical imaging. This shift from the departmental/silo approach to an inc...

The time for diagnoses based on incomplete datasets is at an end; we must connect the ‘ologies’ with all of medicine, writes Dr. Brendan Devlin, a practising radiologist and Senior Clinical Adviso...

Breaking down silos across diagnostic services has been a focus for the NHS transformation agenda for many years. But year on year rising demands, workforce challenges and pressures that have intensified with the pandemic, have now collectively placed the urgency for change into sharper focus.

A Dutchman who reviews the skin samples of Danish patients while on holiday in Spain. This scenario is made possible thanks to a digital pathology solution from Sectra. “Without telepathology, I’d...

Analyzing today’s breast imaging centers, we see the need to introduce new technology and consolidate existing IT systems. However, looking back at the digitization journey of some of the first mamm...

Før 2020 var konventionel mikroskopi stadig den eneste måde at arbejde med patologi i Danmark. Det betød mange timer med hovedet bukket og blikket fæstnet på snit af vævsprøver i mikroskoper fo...

The field of pathology imaging is undergoing rapid change. Articles published just two years ago may already be outdated due to the fast pace of innovation. By March 2022, we had tested scanners from...

We welcome you to join Sectra at the Pathology Informatics Summit 2024 at booth 11, for logistical information, please visit the official event website. We’d love to connect in Ann Arbor to delv...

With an innovative tender, the Braunschweig Hospital attracted a great deal of attention and sent a clear signal regarding the direction of its digital future. The German academic teaching hospital wa...

The past several years have seen the development of a de facto stealth campaign against screening mammography. “Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms,” the New York Times bullhorned in 20...

Image analysis and artificial intelligence has potential to revolutionize the field of pathology and it is often mentioned as one of the key drivers of digitizing pathology workflows. Still, uptake of...

Imaging IT giant Sectra recently announced that it’s partnering with competitor GE HealthCare on a new initiative. The two industry giants are working toward “seamless integration” of their adv...

In 2016, pathologists at University Hospital Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) in the Netherlands became among the first in the world to review histology cases for primary diagnostics digitally. The completely pa...

Cleveland is yet again blazing new ground in healthcare. This time, myriad health systems are actively collaborating to share images. A first for the U.S., we believe. University Hospitals Health Syst...

In this session (session 2 of the “Shifting to digital pathology series”), learn about the power of telepathology and how it enabled efficient remote reading for Dr. Mats Wolving, GI Pathologist a...

We welcome you to join Sectra at the 36th European Congress of Pathology (ECP) to learn more about the possibilities and benefits with digital pathology, and how Sectra’s comprehensive and vendor-ne...

The rapid introduction of new medical devices and advanced diagnostic methods, together with genomics and patient-handled wearables, has started to generate vast amounts of data. Combined with new sel...

NIPACS+ will support the creation of regional networks of care and will help the region to transform diagnostic services, as healthcare professionals benefit from a single point of access to medical i...

 

Helse Nord’s digital multimedia archive is now ready for use by hospitals in Northern Norway. The health region’s radiology archive from Sectra has been upgraded and expanded in order to store dig...

Yet another RSNA has passed and we can conclude that this year there were not any new major trends, rather incremental developments of existing trends. Enterprise imaging (EI), AI and workflow orchest...

Der Weg von der Vision bis zum erreichten Ziel ist oft lang und beschwerlich, aber der Durchhaltewillen zahlt sich aus: So auch im Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, das vor sieben Jahren...

We welcome you to join Sectra at the Digital Pathology & AI Congress (DPC) in London, UK. Learn more about our comprehensive and vendor-neutral solution for digital pathology that allows you to ma...

First there was PACS: picture archiving and communications systems. Over the last decade, as managing medical imaging has expanded far beyond radiology, enterprise imaging was born. But what is enterp...

The Nightingale Centre in Manchester, United Kingdom, is Europe’s first purpose-built center for breast cancer prevention. Services provided by the center include symptomatic and screening mammograp...

Pressure to improve sustainability and reduce isolation in healthcare has renewed the hunger for a different approach to IT. Installing software in individual organizations, and then managing it local...

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has seen many benefits from its deployment of a second generation Sectra PACS, integrated with its Electronic Patient Record (EPR). N...

Having been in the Sectra PACS fold since 2004, members of the radiology department at six-hospital CoxHealth in Springfield, Mo., didn’t need much convincing to “VNAble” their existing system s...

Discover new developments in digital pathology and learn more about the integration of image analysis into the clinical workflow.

We welcome you to join Sectra at the International Imaging Congress 2023. Where forward-thinking clinicians, technologists, entrepreneurs, and healthcare investors come together with experts in medica...

We welcome you to join Sectra at the 20th European Congress on Digital Pathology in beautiful Vilnius, Lithuania, where we will be showcasing our digital pathology solution and answering your question...

During the last few months, I’ve had the privilege to interview several leaders within the Swedish healthcare system [1]. I asked what they expect will be the biggest technological and structural ch...

I januari 2021 invigdes en ny, helt digital, röntgenenhet i stadsdelen Mjärdevi i Linköping. Enheten är en del av Region Östergötlands satsning på digitalisering och nära vård, två högt pri...

At ProMedica, a 13-hospital system serving northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan, the lineup of clinical departments soon to benefit from leadership’s decision to expand a long-installed radio...

Health authorities in the UK are developing regional initiatives to make significant improvement to health and care. The needs look beyond departmental and organizational boundaries, focusing on the n...

Many of us know, or have known, someone with prostate cancer. Today, prostate cancer is seen as a chronic disease and it is common that surgery is not performed in cancers categorized as harmless, mai...

One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as...

Cybersecurity is a hot topic in the medical IT sector. Threats increasing on a daily basis combined with the need for remote working make it one of the major priorities for health systems to take an e...

How do leading institutions bring innovative genomics solutions from concept to reality? Dr. Salvatore Priore, Assistant Professor at Penn Medicine, and Fredrik Lysholm, General Manager of Genomics IT...

Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi is a private hospital in Milan dedicated to orthopedic procedures. They perform approximately 100,000 examinations and 15,000 surgeries annually. As a production-oriented...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) was approved in the US for use as a supplement to traditional mammography following FDA review of two studies in which radiologists showed a 7% improvement in the ab...

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 attempt...

A case study on eight hospitals to find the best practices to add different “ologies” to the imaging platform on the journey toward a complete enterprise imaging solution.

Departmental technologies like PACS are changing and breaking free of their traditional roles, being redefined to respond to patient needs across the entire hospital, writes former NHS radiographer, C...

How can genomics and diagnostic imaging come together to revolutionize integrated diagnostics? Fredrik Lysholm, General Manager of Genomics IT at Sectra, and Dr. Prabhu Arumugam, Director of Clinical...

In 2020, Sectra and Sweden’s Regional Cancer Centre West (RCC) started working on a joint pilot project for MRI prostate reporting to improve and streamline data collection for individual patient ov...

We spoke at length with lecturer and physicist Gerald Torgersen along with Linda Arvidsson and Ulf Riis, maxillofacial radiologists at the Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, part of the Institute...

A constantly growing need for care along with an explosive increase in medical knowledge and the use of technical tools is creating major challenges when it comes to training healthcare personnel quic...

Mit einer innovativen Ausschreibung hat das Klinikum Braunschweig auf sich aufmerksam gemacht und ein deutliches Signal in Richtung digitale Zukunft gesetzt. Gesucht wurde ein Partner, der alle berei...

This webinar explores the implementation of a single platform for radiology and pathology workflows and integrated diagnostics at NYC’s Hospital for Special Surgery. Watch as HSS representatives des...

The pathology workflow is still almost exclusively based on manual examinations of tissue samples under a microscope. The technology and knowledge for a full-scale digitization of pathology is now ava...

Analysis of genetic information, referred to as genomics or precision medicine, is increasingly used in healthcare to diagnose better and treat patients. Sectra has launched a new, cloud-based diagnos...

I have spent my whole working life focused on implementing innovations within diagnostic imaging. Together with many of the world’s leading healthcare organizations, I am driven by a shared belief t...

Connect with Sectra at HINZ 2024 to learn more about our enterprise imaging offering, delivered as a fully managed service. Discover our high-performance Best-in-KLAS PACS — featuring fast and seaml...

Analysis of genetic information, referred to as genomics or precision medicine, is increasingly used in healthcare to diagnose better and treat patients. Sectra has launched a new, cloud-based diagnos...

Earlier this year, Sectra’s enterprise imaging system was deployed at Genomics England. It now ingests radiology and pathology imaging from a large number of NHS trusts and supports a world-lead...

Join us at HIMSS 2025, where we will demonstrate our complete enterprise imaging offering, with Sectra VNA and our Best in KLAS PACS for radiology, pathology, cardiology, and ophthalmology at its core...

Over the last 8 years, there have been tremendous advances in developing AI models for pathology, either focused on specific tasks or taking on complete diagnostic workflows. These models have ac...

Medical images have long lived on legacy spinning disks. But healthcare systems are now leaving behind those on-prem, awkward boxes that require too much real estate, IT support and expense. Cloud is...

Innovation is part of Sectra’s identity. Ever since the company was spun off from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University in the late 1970s, scientific advances have formed the basis fo...

Die Zukunft der Pathologie ist digital – darin stimmen mittlerweile fast alle Experten überein. Befundung am Computer statt am konventionellen Mikroskop, schnelleres und besseres Datenmanagement so...

The NHSX Data Saves Lives strategy is one that the imaging sector should pay close attention to, writes Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick.

After the success of our first roundtable discussion, European trends in diagnostic radiology, Sectra has arranged yet another great session with the experts in the field. This time, the focus was on...

With cloud-first policies in place for years, the NHS has become a cloud pioneer on the world stage. Barriers to translating policy into practice for diagnostic imaging technology are now being overco...

The emergence of a new, powerful imaging modality is cause for both celebration and consternation, and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has proven no exception to this rule, according to participant...

Cloud-first and internet-first government policies have been a feature of public sector procurement for years. But where the NHS has been slower to respond, momentum is now starting to build in the he...

The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare is often touted as a technology which can transform how tasks are carried out across the NHS. Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of the NHS digital academy and dire...

Back in 2016, as part of the renovation of the dissection room at Newcastle University, a decision was made to also upgrade the equipment in the room in order to uphold the university’s commitment t...

In this digital magazine we talk about how moving from multiple PACS to a single enterprise imaging system is busting siloes and deepening integration; challenges in radiology imaging and how radiolog...

Faster diagnoses, increased collaboration between healthcare providers, and prioritizing the most urgent patient cases – these are just some of the benefits of the new Sectra Enterprise Imaging solu...

On a mission to improve patient care, Niagara Health adopted a new digital strategy to modernize their enterprise imaging approach. In this webinar, Mike Sharma, Director of Diagnostics, and Wes McLac...

En arbetsgrupp från Nationella prostatacancerregistret (NPCR) och Regionala cancercentrum (RCC) har tillsammans med Sectra utvecklat en ny digital lösning som kan komma att bli nationell standard f�...

Parker University in the US, like many educational institutions, faced substantial challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The abrupt shift to remote learning accelerated the integration of digital t...

De technologische ontwikkelingen op het gebied van medical imaging zijn de afgelopen jaren snel gegaan: opslag in de cloud, ziekenhuisbrede imaging-systemen, digitale pathologie en AI. 2020 lijkt het...

Join Sectra at AMP 2024, booth #1625, to discover our new, cloud-based diagnostic IT module for genomics within molecular pathology.  This integrated end-to-end solution is a significant leap forward...

The vendor neutral archive offers one of the best opportunities to join together imaging and other valuable data from across diagnostic modalities, to the entire hospital and beyond. How can we ensure...

Hartford HealthCare is Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network. Over the last several years, this community and academic health system has grown significantly through its strategic affil...

ECR has closed its doors for this year. Once again, I am amazed by the enthusiasm among the attendees and vendors when it comes to bringing new innovations to improve healthcare. As many of us have EC...

The largest provider of teleradiology services to NHS hospitals, Medica Group PLC, will use Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution to automate processes, improve productivity, and give its hundreds of...

Le club utilisateurs de pathologie Sectra est de retour avec sa troisième édition qui se déroulera le Mardi 3 Juin 2025 à l’espace Keeze Liège Saint-Lazare à Paris. Inscrivez-vous dès mai...

At the University of Bradford, the Sectra Education Portal was recently incorporated into the curriculum. The portal, which provides students with an enhanced understanding of anatomical structures, c...

Thank you for visiting Sectra’s booth at HIMSS 2024 and exploring a single approach for all your enterprise imaging needs with our fully managed, secure, and high-performing Software as a Service. W...

Chief clinical information officers didn’t even exist in the NHS a decade ago. Now they have become some of the most influential people in the health service, having a very visible and positive impa...

Let’s talk enterprise imaging—a podcast by Sectra, where we discuss hot topics and trends in medical imaging. Our podcast series features a range of episodes that offer insightful perspectives and...

Bolstering cyber defences for health and care is a priority, according to the government’s latest strategy on the subject. Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick gives his views on some immediate prio...

BreastCheck, the national breast screening program in Ireland, provide free mammograms to women aged 50–69 through a network of four static units and 16 mobile units covering more than 30 locations...

Pioneering speech recognition in Landstinget Västmanland, Sweden, has significantly reduced lead times in radiology. Just six months after integrating Nuance’s SpeechMagic technology into their Sec...

This paper discusses why radiation exposure in medical imaging is such a hot topic, how a dose management solution can help healthcare organizations to lower dose levels and the important features of...

Last week, the world’s largest convention in e-health HIMSS took place in Orlando, Florida, with over 45,000 attendees from more than 90 countries. The hot topics of the year ranged from digital tra...

Region Värmland är en av pionjärerna inom enterprise imaging och är i dag världsledande med att hantera och lagra medicinska bilder, multimedia och patientinformation med en central och regionsge...

Hvis man kigger globalt på den digitale patologi, så har Danmark en fortjent førsteplads i forhold til moden- og parathed. Og med billedhåndteringssystemer (PACS) på radiologiske og patologiske a...

Designing the future of healthcare could become everyone’s responsibility. Making that happen will require a new education focus around artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and patie...

Cyber security is a continuing concern in healthcare, with threats on the rise. Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick considers the landscape, how far cloud adoption can help the NHS, and how functions like pr...

The Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS) is an institution for higher education in Bogotá, Colombia, that boasts 45 years’ experience of training healthcare sector professionals....

Færøerne er et mindre samfund med knap 54.000 indbyggere. De oplever som så mange andre også, at befolkningen bliver ældre og har et stigende behov for pleje i sundhedsvæsenet. Der er derved ogs...

Sectra has a new vision for eye care: utilizing a single platform to streamline image viewing, analysis and storage and linking ophthalmology with other ‘ologies across the healthcare system. That v...

A new initiative between The Prince’s Trust and medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra, is helping to widen access to technology career opportunities for young people from different bac...

At Sectra, we’re dedicated to extending our imaging excellence across the United States. Through our network of trusted partners, we deliver advanced solutions to healthcare providers of all siz...

There is no doubt that vendor neutral archives (VNAs) have gained favor over the last several years in managing medical images. But there is some debate over whether hospitals really need both a VNA a...

Delivering key images, reports and patient data to the point of diagnosis and care is the Holy Grail of radiology and many other specialties today. Having the correct information for the patient at th...

AI is now essential for automation in radiology and pathology, but it provides a means to support the human, not replace.

Momentum. You feel it when you’ve got it. And when it lags, you’re pushing harder to regain your stride. In radiology, maintaining momentum is core to keeping radiologists, workflow, decision-maki...

Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is a leader in clinical services, research, and education, and provides a wide range of public healthcare services to a population of over 1 million people...

Unused archives of millions of diagnostic images could about to become one of the most powerful datasets in the NHS. Jane Rendall, UK managing director at Sectra, asks what can happen when machine lea...

   

Many healthcare providers are currently adopting enterprise imaging systems to facilitate collaboration and increase efficiency in the sharing of medical images. Although not many have reached full �...

As new NHSX guidance around artificial intelligence is digested in healthcare, Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick argues that AI should barely even be noticed by the professionals who use it, and that it ne...

What are the biggest challenges within diagnostic radiology in Europe today? And what future trends will have the greatest impact over the next five years? To answer these questions, we brought togeth...

In this webinar, listen as Steve Thompson, Director of Clinical Initiatives, describes the vision, planning, and execution of Sanford Health — the largest rural healthcare system in the U.S., which...

Elin Kindberg, globale Produktmanagerin für digitale Pathologie bei Sectra, gibt eine kurze Einführung in die digitale Pathologie Lösung von Sectra.

Sahlgrenska Academy, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, offers education and world-leading research in medicine, odontology, and health and care sciences. They were amo...

Die medizinische Versorgung steht in allen Krankenhäusern unter enormem Druck. Die Wartelisten sind extrem lang und der Personalmangel ist ein akutes Problem. Mit einer intelligenteren und schnellere...

What does a diagnostic imaging department spend its time on? What are the busiest times for staff, and what drives the workload at those times? Gaining a true understanding—and implementing the righ...

Sahlgrenska Academy, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Gothenburg, offers medical education and world-leading research. Practical training is of the utmost importance to the academy, which...

Connect with Sectra at RANZCR 2024 to learn more about our enterprise imaging offering, delivered as a fully managed service. Discover our high-performance Best in KLAS PACS — featuring fast and sea...

When patients experience a stroke, the time to treatment is crucial for survival. Every second saved before a thrombectomy* is performed on the patient significantly improves the odds of a positive ou...

In 2020, Canadian medical imaging provider, Mayfair Diagnostics, selected Sectra to deliver an enterprise imaging solution that supports workflow optimization, heightens reading efficiency, and enable...

Earlier this year, Sectra gathered radiology experts and thought leaders for a virtual roundtable discussion to talk about the biggest challenges and future trends within the field of diagnostic radio...

Artificiell intelligens har stor potential att förbättra kvalitet och produktivitet för bilddiagnostiken. Erfarenheter visar dock att avtalsmässiga, tekniska och juridiska aspekter kan utgöra sto...

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great potential to improve the quality and productivity of diagnostic imaging. However, experience shows that contractual, technical, and legal aspects can present m...

I Västmanland och Skåne har man i flera decennier arbetat med strukturerad svarsskrivning inom klinisk fysiologi. Detta har underlättat både för den som skriver utlåtandet och för den remittera...

Radiologists and radiographers at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust have become the first in Greater Manchester to use the Sectra picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to report...

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the first National Health Service (NHS) organization in the UK to deploy a cloud-based enterprise imaging service fully managed by Sectra. The deployment im...

Estamos entusiasmados por apresentar as melhorias futuras e como estas poderão aumentar significativamente o desempenho e a eficiência do PACS da sua instituição. Neste dia, teremos a oportunidade...

The imaging division at John Muir Health in California’s Contra Costa County has been supplying topnotch image-handling capabilities to end users located across the system’s sprawling family tree�...

It was early 2015 when the team at Carilion Clinic decided they had outgrown their PACS and needed to replace their decade-old system. Software lockups were all too common, and they needed to amp up t...

The Philipps-Universität Marburg was founded in 1527 and has since been a centre for both research and teaching. Today, it has nearly 23,000 students. The Faculty of Human Medicine is the largest fac...

Two NHS trusts in the North West of England have taken the lead in breaking down barriers between diagnostic departments and frontline clinical staff, in a move that healthcare professionals say is ch...

Within Stockholm County Council (SLL), Sweden’s capital region, there are 2,000 healthcare providers—ranging from hospitals and district care centers to specialist clinics and private dentists. To...

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust became the first trust in England to use a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in the cloud in 2017. The Sectra PACS is taking pressure away...

Today’s healthcare organizations, in some cases, are built on hundreds of different integrated IT systems, creating a complex and ever-changing ecosystem. For a user, this ecosystem must function as...

De toekomst van digitale pathologie begint zichtbaar te worden. Steeds meer labs kiezen hiervoor om hun efficiency te verhogen en makkelijker samen te werken met anderen. Wat zijn de succesfactoren vo...

It is not an understatement to say that the trend for enterprise imaging systems and PACS is moving toward the cloud. The reason? Quite simply, moving to the cloud provides significant new opportuniti...

Na een goed doordacht voor- en implementatietraject zat de afdeling Pathologie van het Radboudumc midden in de test- en acceptatiefase van het digitale pathologiesysteem van Sectra toen duidelijk werd...

Als corona ons een ding heeft geleerd, dan is het wel hoe kwetsbaar ons zorgsysteem is. Als het aantal ziekenhuisopnames onverwacht te veel oploopt, moet de reguliere zorg worden afgeschaald. Dit bete...

Wenn uns Corona eines gelehrt hat, dann, dass unser Gesundheitswesen verwundbar ist. Steigt die Anzahl an Krankenhauseinweisungen unerwartet stark, muss die standardmäßige medizinische Versorgung e...

Mit einem Fördervolumen von 4,3 Mrd. Euro stellen Bund und Länder Mittel zur Verfügung, um die Digitalisierung und moderne technische Ausstattung in den Krankenhäusern zu fördern. Ziel ist eine z...

In 2017, the South African private radiology chain Maine Radiology selected Sectra to provide a central enterprise imaging system to be used by four of the chain’s clinics. Utilizing a single common...

A single platform for medical imaging makes it possible to eliminate the current walls around existing medical silos, including those between radiology and pathology. Treatment guided by integrated di...

De beschikbaarheid van zorg staat in alle ziekenhuizen onder druk. De wachtlijsten zijn gigantisch en het personeelsgebrek is nijpend. Eén van de gebieden waar ziekenhuizen veel tijdwinst kunnen beha...

Healthcare professionals at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are trialling an AI application designed to help detect lung cancers on chest x-rays sooner, in the first UK project set up using...

Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) is a public university with almost 22,000 students. It offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, 36 of which are within the Faculty of Health Sciences...

De zorg staat al jaren onder druk. De huidige demografische ontwikkelingen zorgen ervoor dat de druk onhoudbaar wordt, tenzij je dingen echt ánders gaat organiseren. Aan de behandelkant worden daarto...

De ontwikkelingen in diagnostiek gaan sneller dan ooit. De hoeveelheid data groeit gestaag en de technische mogelijkheden om deze data slimmer te analyseren nemen toe. Goed nieuws voor de patiënt, ma...

In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, radiology plays a pivotal role in diagnosing and guiding treatment decisions. However, as the volume and complexity of imaging studies continue to rise, traditi...

Region Östergötland has a clear strategy for how medical images and multimedia are to be managed in their operations. As far as possible, they prefer to use a centralized storage solution on a regio...

Join us at RSNA 2024, where we will demonstrate our complete enterprise imaging offering, with Sectra VNA and our Best in KLAS PACS for radiology, pathology, cardiology, and ophthalmology at its core....

A major shift for diagnostic imaging into the public cloud has begun in the NHS. But how can imaging networks and healthcare providers ensure suppliers are able to deliver on such important, large, an...

The treatment of eye diseases depends heavily on medical imaging, and there are many opportunities for ophthalmology to innovate in this area. Rivierenland Hospital in Tiel is a great example of such...

Join Sectra at OARM 2024! Book a meeting with our industry experts to discover how Sectra’s award-winning Radiology PACS & complete enterprise imaging offering can take your imaging to the n...

Join us at ECR 2025, where we will demonstrate our complete enterprise imaging offering, with Sectra VNA and our Best in KLAS PACS for radiology, pathology, cardiology, and ophthalmology at its core....

Today, over 500 institutions are connected to Sectra’s Image Exchange Portal in the UK. The following is the full list of Sectra IEP customers.

When X-Ray Associates of New Mexico went live with a new RIS in mid-April, Vice President and COO Sagit Frasier was anxious, but optimistic. The moment had been years in the making. The practice’s o...

Linköping University has ordered the Sectra Table and will be first in the world to apply this innovation in medical education. All seven under-graduate programs at Linköping Faculty of Health Scien...

“Change is good, but be prepared,” says Dr. Stamatia Destounis at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Rochester, New York. She bases this piece of advice on the knowledge she gained when the clinic mad...

This white paper raises the issue of the increase in  patient exposure to radiation doses in diagnostic medical imaging over the last three decades. The aim is to inform about the problem and highlig...

University Hospitals (UH), in Northeast Ohio, serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of 18 hospitals, 15 counties, and more than 40 outpatient locations. UH is using Sectra’s Bre...

With PACS as with any healthcare-specific technology, some universal expectations are common to all end-users and their IT support teams. Yet there are also as many unique sets of preferences as there...

This is a tale of making care better. Better for patients, better for the caregivers providing it, and better for a healthcare system morphing and migrating to thrive as a high-performing public-priva...

A network that connects every NHS acute hospital in England is giving thousands of patients unprecedented and easy online access to everything from their x-rays through to ultrasound, CT and MRI scans...

I dag består den typiske sundhedsorganisation af mere eller mindre isolerede kliniske datasiloer, der løseligt bliver holdt sammen af et journalsystem. I de senere år er der dog blevet stillet spø...

Seit 2002 speichert und archiviert die Radiologie am Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus in Stuttgart ihre Bilder digital. 2018 machten herstellerbedingte Umstände den Austausch des PACS-Systems notwendig. Für...

When the cardiac and neurovascular catheterization lab at Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS-MC) treated its first patient last February, the opening represented many things to ma...

Komfortable Datenübermittlung statt Warten auf altmodische Ausdrucke aus Papier: Das ist der Grundgedanke hinter dem neuen Sectra-Patientenportal, das in immer mehr Kliniken und Praxen zum Einsatz ko...

Dr. László Tabár, by training a radiologist and oncologist from Falun, Sweden, is known worldwide as the “father” of mammography screening. He is certainly one of the key people behind the curr...

Technology for diagnostic imaging typically takes months to deploy into a hospital. As part of a mammoth technology response from Barts Health NHS Trust to make NHS Nightingale Hospital London work, t...

DIE RADIOLOGIE München is one of the largest breast diagnostics centers in the Munich area and one of few locations in Germany offering automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) examinations. The ABUS scann...

In October 2020, Sectra and Greater Manchester announced signing a contract for one of the largest diagnostic imaging initiatives in Europe. Eight NHS trusts across Greater Manchester are taking an im...

Obwohl KI im Gesundheitswesen seit Jahren an Bedeutung gewinnt und bereits eine Reihe KI-gestützter Applikationen den Weg in die klinische Praxis gefunden hat, gleicht die Distribution medizintechnis...

Technological advances, the need to level-up access to services, and a new willingness to do things out of hospital might now see the NHS rapidly and permanently un-constrain the geography of its diag...

Umeå University is one of the largest teaching universities in Sweden with over 34,000 students, 3,400 of whom belong to the Faculty of Medicine. Back in 2015, the heads of the medical program wanted...

Sectra har under 2020 drivit ett samarbete med RCC Väst, med syfte att effektivisera datainsamling till IPÖ (individuell patientöversikt) och nationella kvalitetsregister. Som pilotprojekt valdes M...

The UK’s globally unique deployment of a medical imaging sharing system called the Sectra Image Exchange Portal has expanded to a record reach, easing the flow of important patient information beyon...

Vad lägger en bilddiagnostisk avdelning sin tid på? När arbetar personalstyrkan som intensivast och vad är det som just då driver på arbetsbelastningen? För att verkligen komma till insikt –...

Vi ønsker deg velkommen til å bli med Sectra på Årsmøte for Den norske patologforening 2024. Avtal et møte for å se vår komplette og leverandørnøytrale løsning for primærdiagnostikk og ut...

Välkommen att träffa Sectra på Vårmötet i patologi 2024 i Kalmar. Boka ett möte för att se vår kompletta och leverantörsneutrala lösning för primärdiagnostik och utforska möjligheterna...

Patientens bilddata – samlat och i tryggt förvar.   Varmt välkommen att besöka oss på Vitalis, Nordens ledande mötesplats för framtidens hälsa, vård och omsorg. I vår monter B04:02 kom...

What are the key learnings healthcare providers need to consider when shifting their enterprise medical imaging platform from an on-premise solution to a cloud-based SaaS model? In this webinar, co-d...

Considering adopting and deploying AI applications within your healthcare organization? In this episode of Let’s Talk Enterprise Imaging, Dr. Rhidian Bramley, consultant radiologist at The Christie...

A national image sharing platform, used by NHS organisations, patients and others to securely access diagnostic scans and tests, has seen record usage across the country.