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...

Först kom PACS, ett IT-system för att hantera lagring, åtkomst, delning och granskning av digitala röntgenbilder. Under det senaste decenniet – då behovet av medicinsk multimediahantering har e...

There is new synergy afoot when it comes to enterprise imaging. Healthcare systems are increasingly choosing enterprise imaging systems to manage image viewing across the two most image-rich ‘ologie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Healthcare’s adoption of enterprise imaging is on the rise, and using one shared system for all medical multimedia leads to increased utilization of and access to images by specialties outside of ra...

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 �...

Al in 2015 ontstonden in het Antonius Ziekenhuis in Sneek de eerste ideeën om beelden van andere afdelingen dan radiologie in het PACS op te slaan. De technologie was toen echter nog niet zo ver dat...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Sectra’s oplossing voor enterprise imaging biedt een gemeenschappelijke strategie voor alle behoeften rondom de medische beeldvorming, verbetert de zorg voor de patiënt en verlaagt de operation...

In October 2022, Sectra launched a podcast—Let’s talk enterprise imaging—and released the first three episodes, focused on radiology imaging. To share knowledge and keep you up to date, we invit...

Sectras Enterprise Imaging Portfolio bietet eine einheitliche Strategie für all Ihre Bildgebungsanforderungen. So können Sie Behandlungsergebnisse verbessern und dazu noch die Betriebskosten senken....

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...

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...

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...

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...

More and more healthcare providers have declared the cloud to be the future home of their enterprise imaging solutions. Vendors have responded to their customers requests and nearly all now offer clou...

You can now access the recordings of three live symposia with industry experts—focusing on AI, integrated diagnostics, and cloud-based enterprise imaging. All of them are now available for you on de...

University Hospitals in Cleveland made do for years with separate PACS for radiology, cardiology and other image-intensive clinical departments. Now the 18-hospital, 15-county, 40-clinic integrated he...

Health providers are increasingly embracing cloud technology as they search for a more cost-effective, scalable, and secure way to store, access, and use their vast amounts of medical imaging data. In...

Last February, 439-bed Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS-MC) opened a new cardiac and neurovascular catheterization lab. While some internal questioning initially swirled around...

The business of imaging is changing. Providers are searching for a more cost-effective, scalable and secure way to store, access and use their vast amounts of medical imaging data. There are also huge...

Immunotherapy using “checkpoint inhibitors” (see fact box) is an emerging form of cancer care that is reshaping the role of medical imaging in cancer diagnosis and treatment follow-up. The use of...

Trillium Health Partners is Canada’s largest community and academically affiliated hospital that is comprised of two acute care hospitals and one outpatient and long-term care facility within Missis...

We never thought we’d do it. But it’s happening.  We are launching a podcast! It will soon be available on all major podcast listening platforms. Make sure not to miss the first three episodes w...

Sectras Enterprise Imaging-Portfolio bietet eine einheitliche Strategie für alle Bildgebungsanforderungen im Krankenhaus.

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

 

In this webinar, learn how workflow orchestration software can increase operational performance by distributing the right exam to the right specialist at the right time, while providing a complete wor...

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...

Efficiency is the keyword in breast imaging workflow. Efficient workflow that results in rapid report turnaround times and improved quality of care is important for the patient and the imaging provide...

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...

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...

Een jaar geleden zagen we dat steeds meer ziekenhuizen kozen voor Enterprise Imaging. Met tools als business intelligence (BI) vergroten ze hun inzicht in de bedrijfsvoering en verhogen ze hun flexibi...

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...

Patient care on the south coast of England is being significantly enhanced by a new picture archiving and communication system (PACS). Clinicians and radiologists are seamlessly sharing and accessing...

Healthcare professionals in Bristol are gaining immediate access to imaging held across trusts after extending their use of the Image Exchange Portal with IEP Connect and Share. University Hospitals B...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) Willemstad opened its doors in November 2019. The new, ultramodern hospital was equipped with the latest technology, making it the most innovative in the region. Effi...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Join Sectra at e-Health, booth #93, to discover Sectra One Cloud; a secure, future-proof, and fully managed cloud service that provides fast access to all the enterprise imaging software you’ll...

Thus far during the coronavirus crisis, many practices have experienced a sudden drop in imaging exams, which has resulted in dramatic changes in operations and impacts on revenue. But the crisis also...

In november 2019 opende het Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) in Willemstad haar deuren. Het hypermoderne ziekenhuis is uitgerust met de nieuwste apparatuur. Daarmee wil de overheid de gezondheidszorg op...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is 2023 and radiology runs smoothly at Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon. But the situation was different two and a half years ago when John Gaede, Director of Information Systems, and the hospita...

We invite you to connect with Sectra at the BreastScreen Australia Conference in 2024. We will be showcasing our comprehensive breast imaging solution and exploring how the latest advancements can hel...

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...

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has signed a new agreement to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution in a bid to further improve patient care.

Mammography screening programs have significantly reduced the mortality rate of breast cancer. However, screening programs still contain scope for improvement since all cancers are not detected. There...

Patients who do and don’t have bowel cancer are notified much sooner as radiologists at the UK’s University Hospitals of North Midlands transform pathways and innovate with imaging technology.

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...

Transitioning enterprise imaging to the cloud is top of mind in many healthcare organizations. With cloud adoption comes change, but with the right vendor, change also brings opportunity. How do you f...

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�...

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...

In today’s complex threat environment, everyone with an Internet connection is a target for cyberattacks, especially for businesses operating within the healthcare sector. Therefore, to remain opera...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Transitioning enterprise imaging to the cloud is top of mind in many healthcare organizations. With cloud adoption comes change but also opportunity. In this webinar Stacie Barnard, CNMT, CIIP, Direct...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Medical imaging tenders today revolve heavily around a few components that are mentioned in almost every procurement process. These are: Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), image viewer and workflow/worklis...

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...

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...

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...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, radiologists have been facing year on year rising demand. University Hospitals North Midlands NHS Trust is one trust that has been using technology to respond. Th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the world of healthcare, security is paramount, and Sectra takes a unique approach to providing customers with a secure SaaS. Douglas Wallgren, Solutions Architect at Sectra, explains how Sectra On...

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...

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...

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...

This whitepaper explores the transformative role of Software as a Service (SaaS) in medical imaging. It delves into the evolution, benefits, and challenges of SaaS. It highlights the unique advantages...

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...

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...

De afdeling Radiologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde van het Robert Bosch Ziekenhuis in Stuttgart wist twee vliegen in een klap te slaan door het beeldarchief en de diagnostische systemen te consolideren i...

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...

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...

Wij nodigen u graag uit voor onze allereerste vernieuwde Sectra User Meeting op vrijdag 6 september 2024: het vernieuwde concept van de Sectra Klantendag.   Deze dag staat geheel in het teken van...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Radiology could represent a far more important part of a hospital’s business intelligence. Sectra’s Chris Scarisbrick explores a goldmine that hospitals must look to unearth.

For more than 10 years, all the hospitals in Region Skåne have been using Sectra RIS and in 2008, the region started its transition to Sectra PACS, when the University Hospitals in Malmö and Lund de...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AZ Delta was established in 2015 after a merger between two hospitals with a total of four sites. In 2018, a third hospital joined the group. A new vision for the group’s imaging strategy was requir...

Current trends in healthcare call for an image handling strategy for all medical disciplines. Although medical images are used in numerous medical specialties, they are often not stored and distribute...

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...

Region Östergötland har en uttalad strategi för hur medicinska bilder och multimedia ska hanteras i sina verksamheter. I så stor utsträckning som möjligt vill de nyttja en centraliserad lagring...

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

Nous vous invitons à rejoindre Sectra au salon SantExpo où nous présenterons notre offre complète “d’Enterprise Imaging” avec notre VNA et notre PACS récompensé Best-in-KLAS. N...

The Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany was able to kill two birds with one stone when they consolidated their image archive and diagnostic...

Heute muss ein System mehr bereitstellen als Archivierung und Vernetzung, es geht jetzt um sinnvolle Verknüpfung und strukturierte Aufarbeitung von Informationen und zielgenaue Bereitstellung. Sectra...

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...

   

NHS IT vendors can no longer ignore technology they didn’t invent, and trusts need to integrate imaging far beyond the radiology department, if AI is to play its big role in diagnosing illnesses.

                           

What are the most recent trends in radiology imaging? What impact does AI have on workflow efficiency? Steve Holloway, Company Director & Principal Analyst at Signify Research, Nynke Breimer, Glob...

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...

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...

Our healthcare system is not immune to the pressures of today’s economy. And we all know that hospitals are short of technical staff. On top of that, radiology departments are struggling with heavy...

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...

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...

The radical increase in patient exposure to radiation from medical imaging over the last two decades has created great concerns about its inherent risks. Today, one of the highest priorities on many h...

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...

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

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...

Artificial intelligence (AI) will probably become an invaluable tool for breast imaging. Breast cancer is the most common cancer type globally and the incidence is increasing. At the same time, there...

Sectra interviewed three thought leaders from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands about their experiences and insights on integrating AI directly into the radiology workflow. Th...

Although medical images are used in numerous medical specialities, they are often not stored and distributed in a way that is efficient for the healthcare enterprise. For Sörmland County Council, thi...

Few will dispute that implementing a first-time RIS/PACS makes great business and clinical sense, but how about replacing a RIS/PACS? On the “income side”, it’s pretty straightforward. Not all s...

Er gebeurt momenteel veel in het programma Twiin. Terwijl DVDexit nog volop in de uitrol zit, wordt achter de schermen hard gewerkt aan de duurzame vervolgstap: Beeldbeschikbaarheid. Sectra is één v...

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...

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...

Linköping, Schweden – April 23, 2024 – Das internationale IT- und Cybersecurity-Unternehmen Sectra (STO: SECT B) hat mit zwei Universitätskliniken in Deutschland – dem Universität...

Leading up to RSNA 2017, we published a report discussing our findings from talking to radiologists about where they see an added value of machine learning (ML) in their daily work. With RSNA in the r...

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...

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...

What is essential to keep up with rising imaging volumes in radiology? Amy Thompson of Signify Research leads a discussion with radiologists from the University of Michigan, the NHS Foundation Trust,...

Amidst increasing concern from patients, as well as increased publicity about the effects of radiation exposure, hospital systems like St. Joseph’s/Candler, serving Savannah and the four surrounding...

“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...

When UC San Diego Health introduced its expanded Comprehensive Breast Health Center in the spring of 2018, Haydee Ojeda-Fournier, MD, medical director of breast imaging, got right to the point for the...

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...

Denis Lafitte, Director of Technology and Innovation at King’s Facilities Management, explains the importance of partnership and how this helped radiologists to quickly transition to home report...

Changing access to NHS diagnostics could have a big impact on equity, waiting times, workforce effectiveness and on NHS recovery post-Covid, writes Raj Jain, chief executive of the Northern Care Allia...

The radiology community has taken one of its biggest hits in history with the COVID-19 pandemic. To find out how to best handle both the imaging backlog from the pandemic and the growing volumes and i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Door corona is het maar liefst 2,5 jaar geleden dat de Zorg & ICT beurs plaatsvond, maar gelukkig was het begin november weer zover. Wie zijn oor te luisteren legde op de verschillende stands komt...

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...

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...

In this webinar, Dan Navarro, MD, Chief of Imaging Informatics at a large multi-regional health system, leads Isaac Zaworski, President of Sectra North America, and John Doyle, Global Chief Technology...

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 wake of the Cedars-Sinai CT overexposure scandal, California passed legislation in 2012 mandating the monitoring and reporting of CT-exam radiation dose; since then, dose-monitoring legislation...

We welcome you to join Sectra at Update in Breast Imaging 2023. For more information about the event visit the official event website.

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...

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...

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...

As NHS organisations bid for their share of new government funds, Sectra’s Guilherme Carvalho considers ways to make the most of opportunities available in diagnostic AI.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable advances in recent years and its presence in our daily lives clearly shows that it is here to stay. As in other areas of the healthcare sector, cardiol...

This paper discusses various aspects that need to be evaluated when investing in archive solutions for enterprise image management. It provides a set of questions that will help you on your way when c...

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City is the oldest and one of the most renowned orthopaedic hospitals in the US. With one main campus in Manhattan and several regional sites, everybody...

Join us in London for the IEP User Meeting taking place on 21st March 2024. Don’t miss the chance to share and discuss your experiences with your peers and specialists from the Sectra IEP team....

The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) serves patients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the surrounding region through a network of five hospitals and ten multispecialty centers. When rep...

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...

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.

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...

Angesichts der Vielzahl von KI-Anwendungen für die Radiologie ist es nicht einfach herauszufinden, welche Apps zu bestimmten Bildgebungslösungen passen und sich darüber hinaus auch lohnen. Daher is...

Een allesomvattende radiologie-oplossing kan de volledige radiologie-workflow optimaliseren, van het registreren van de aanvraag tot het delen van de verslagen, maar ook voor onderwijs en kwaliteitsve...

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...

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...

In a world where remote reading has become the standard practice, how can you enable efficient reading for radiologists? Dr. Gloria Hwang, Clinical Professor of Radiology at Stanford University, shar...

We are looking forward to exhibiting at UKIO 2024, the largest multidisciplinary imaging and oncology conference in the UK. Sectra will be situated at stand B15 where we will be showcasing our complet...

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...

Since 2006, the mammography operation at Södersjukhuset (Stockholm South General Hospital) has been performing fully digitized screening and symptomatic mammography. Each year, more than 60,000 women...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As initiatives for radiation-dose reduction take root in health systems and hospitals around the country—driven, in some cases, by state legislation mandating dose tracking and reporting—these org...

           

Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center (KCBC) began in 1983 as a multidisciplinary multispecialty breast center. Today they have 26,000 patients per year and they do all kinds of breast imaging, needle...

Manatee Healthcare System in Bradenton, FL is a two-hospital, 4 imaging center system serving patients in the greater Sarasota area. In this video, Brendan McDowell, PACS Administrator, talks about th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Värmland County Council has been using Sectra PACS as a VNA for sharing and archiving medical multimedia since May 2014. The solution allows secure, cost-effective and centralized storage, as well as...

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...

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...

Has the radiology information system had its day as a standalone technology? Sectra managing director Jane Rendall asks if the NHS might absorb RIS functionality into other systems, as it seeks to dri...

Need a better way to share medical images and reports? Learn from three leading healthcare systems that have expanded their image sharing capabilities.

  Nous vous invitons à venir visiter le stand Sectra lors des JFR (Journées Francophones de Radiologie) 2024, où nous vous présenterons notre offre d’ “Enterprise Imaging” p...

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...

For to år siden lammede WannaCry IT-systemer på en række engelske hospitaler i flere dage. Det samme kan ske i dag, hvis der ikke stilles krav til sikkerheden.

In light of the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the work situation for many radiologists has changed. Many have taken on new work tasks, workloads have suddenly changed, and what is perhaps most apparent is...

Workflow is both the magic and the headache of radiology. Orchestrating workflow more efficiently is a win–win for patients, technologists, radiologists, and referring physicians. This was one reaso...

What’s the state of adoption of AI applications in radiology, what role will an AI marketplace play to enable broad-scale adoption, and what is Sectra doing in this space? Listen to an expert panel...

In this webinar, three radiologists take a deep dive into how modern integrations with the EMR and structured reporting tools can facilitate your daily work and help you get the most out of your ent...

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BCH) is a leading paediatric centre providing services to children, young people and their families both locally and across the UK. BCH specialis...

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...

Many hospitals find themselves dealing with heavy internal pressure for increased efficiency, as well as tougher government demands on financial and quality reports. Many hospitals are also experienci...

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.

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...

What new imaging technology and diagnostic tools have the greatest potential to truly improve your work life and support you in becoming more efficient? If you want to amplify future success but find...

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...

What new imaging technology and diagnostic tools have the greatest potential to truly improve your work life and support you in becoming more efficient? If you want to amplify future success by adopti...

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...

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�...

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...

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...

Visualization tools are becoming increasingly important in the radiology department. However, when words like 3D and MPR are mentioned most people’s thoughts go directly to advanced visualization ap...

Visualization tools are becoming increasingly important in the radiology department. However, when words like 3D and MPR are mentioned most people’s thoughts go directly to advanced visualization ap...

   

Buying new software systems for your healthcare enterprise is a precarious endeavor. On the one hand, replacing an old system that is holding you back or purchasing new functionality that will increas...

En kombination af høje forventninger og stort behov har gjort AI til en stjerne i sundheds­sektoren. Men hvad kan du realistisk forvente dig af AI i de næste år?

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...

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...

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.

Under 2021 drev Södersjukhuset ett framgångsrikt pilotprojekt. Projektet implementerade automatisk import av PDF-rapporter för undersökningar med långtids-EKG till sitt befintliga Sectra PACS. Me...

Twee administratief medewerkers van de afdeling radiologie kunnen voortaan voor andere taken worden ingezet, dan voor handelingen rondom import van externe beelden. Dit is het snelle resultaat van de...

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...

“Made for you” is at the heart of everything Sectra does, especially when it comes to developing software that improves our customers’ working lives. Traci DeForge hosts a discussion about the i...

De behandeling van oogaandoeningen is sterk afhankelijk van medische beeldvorming. Hierin liggen voor de oogheelkunde veel innovatiekansen. Ziekenhuis Rivierenland in Tiel is het eerste ziekenhuis in...

Am 20. und 21. November finden die 49. Hannoverschen Archivtage 2023 in der medizinischen Hochschule Hannover statt. Dieser Kongress des KRH Klinikum Region Hannover sowie der Medizinischen Hochschule...

We welcome you to join Sectra at Digital Health Rewired 2024, a premier educational conference and networking event for health IT. Sectra will be located at stand I30 where our application specialists...

We invite you to join Sectra at the NHS Pathology Conference North 2024. This exclusive event brings together leading experts, healthcare professionals, and innovators in the pathology community to ex...

Join the Sectra UK User Meeting on 9th–10th October 2024, at Principal York. Don’t miss the chance to learn, share, and discuss your experiences with your peers and specialists from the Sectra tea...

Join Sectra in Edinburgh this May at the Transforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward event. Engage in discussions and insightful debates on the use of digital pathology in clinical setti...

How can radiologists achieve work-life balance, which in turn translates to enhanced patient care? In the previous episode, we discussed Stanford’s remote reading program, emphasizing the role of a...

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...

Danderyd University Hospital is a specialist hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), and serves a catchment area of around 440,000 inhabitants in northern Stockholm, Sweden. The Mammogra...

Since 2008, Region Skåne in southern Sweden, has been using Sectra DoseTrack as a regional quality system for radiation doses to collate, store and analyze radiation-dose data from more than two mill...

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...

As the number and complexity of cancer cases increase, radiology spends more and more time providing service to oncologists. It is therefore vital that oncologists, an increasingly important group of...

City of Hope National Medical Center, located in southern California, is a major cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute. Its focus is academic and research, but also treatment of pa...

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 has implemented a vendo...

Aspects to consider when introducing artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in healthcare.

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In 2017, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen (UAS) implemented Sectra RIS and PACS to enable its Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy program (MIRT) to better mimic the clinical workflows...

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Today, radiologists are overwhelmed by extravagant marketing messages about artificial intelligence, promising to revolutionize diagnostics in medical imaging. However, most radiologists feel uncertai...

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...

Man könnte meinen, dass ein Anbieter von Bildgebungstechnologien davon überzeugt ist, dass technologische Entwicklungen den Unterschied im Gesundheitswesen ausmachen. Und Sie denken vielleicht, dass...

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...

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...

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...

As we start 2021, we wanted to revisit our top 10 most read or viewed resources and customer success stories from 2020, both to reflect back on the challenges of the past year and to use the lessons l...

Learn how to stay ahead of the algorithm using AI to greatly improve the performance and productivity in diagnostic imaging; from the advice of Nynke Breimer, Global Product Manager for the Amplifier...

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...

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...