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...

When Luleå University of Technology adopted Sectra’s cloud-based education portal in 2022, hands-on guidance, tailored workshops, and ongoing support ensured a smooth implementation. For Sara Larss...

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...

The amount of information that medical professionals are expected to know and understand has been increasing at an astonishing rate. This places a heavy burden on educational institutions to fully pre...

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....

At the forefront of radiology services, Telemedicine Clinic (TMC) supports hospitals in Europe by offering remote reading and reporting on radiology images. By integrating Sectra Education Portal into...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As we stand on the brink of a new era in healthcare, where technological advancements and demographic shifts shape the horizon, the critical role of radiography cannot be overstressed. However, we fac...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anna Pettersson, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden is currently participating in three different projects, including one aimed at better understanding how students from diffe...

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...

Embarking on healthcare technology career after leaving his home as a refugee during his teenage years, Yousif is passionate about making a difference. He reflects on an apprenticeship in which he has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The healthcare system is a prime target for cybercriminals, and it is time to start managing these risks more proactively.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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