Sectra

Driven by knowledge and passion, our vision is to contribute to a healthier and safer society. Sectra successfully develops and sells cutting-edge solutions in the expanding niche segments of medical IT and cybersecurity. For more information, please visit Sectra.com

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Hartford HealthCare’s ImageConnect Project: How Strategy, Growth and a VNA Made It Happen

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 affiliations with hospitals and a variety of providers. 

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UCSF: Breast Imaging Pioneer Creating New Standards in Reading Efficiency and Workflow

University of California San Francisco Medical Center has a long history of setting the standards in breast imaging and breast cancer care. Now it’s also setting the standard when it comes to reading and managing digital breast images and facilitating workflow efficiency.

Memorial Hospital: Zeroing In On the Right Zero Footprint Viewer

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 the right time for the radiologist or referring physician starts with having the right viewer.

One of the big problems in radiology today is the selective cherry picking of the easier, more desirable cases from the DICOM work lists and leaving the more complicated studies for other radiologists, leading to radiologist burnout. Several vendors now offer radiology workflow orchestration software engines to help load balance reading lists. Image from Sectra.

Managing Breast Imaging: Building Efficiency Across the Enterprise

What tools and tactics are making breast imaging specialists and clinicians more efficient across the healthcare enterprise?

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A Telemammography Dynamo Rides New PACS from the Deep South to Boundless Frontiers

Eight years ago, Women’s Imaging Associates in Birmingham, Ala., was a small, well-respected mammography practice serving six OB/GYN offices in its area. Today, having embraced a 100% telemedicine model, its three fulltime breast specialists read images for 22 client facilities scattered around the U.S.—not only OB offices but also outpatient imaging centers and hospitals large and small. 

Smart cloud-based solution, strong people skills prepare John Muir Health well for exchanging images with neighboring providers

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—three hospitals, seven outpatient imaging centers, a 1,000-plus physician network and a dozen or so sites providing outpatient, urgent-care and surgery services—since 2001. That’s when Sectra PACS entered the picture for the Walnut Creek-based organization.

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Enterprise PACS packs the punch when it doubles as a VNA too

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 and a PACS. If PACS can do double duty as VNA and PACS, why do you need both? As we see it, you don’t, as long as you have a true enterprise PACS and here’s why.

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Riverside University Health System springboards from PACS upgrade to EMR collaboration

Nearly two decades ago, the PACS race was on in Southern California’s Inland Empire. The main event pitted the regional medical center, 439-bed Riverside County Regional Medical Center, against the larger 719-bed Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). In 1998, Riverside won the race by about six months, installing the first PACS in the region and, in the process, becoming the first hospital in the U.S. to select Sectra PACS.