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Sectra highlights at ECR 2012

At ECR 2012, Sectra showcased the latest development within its product suites with the main focus on how radiology can increase their service to referring physicians thereby becoming number one for their customers in an increasingly competitive and challenging environment.

Radiology IT solutions

Sectra Referring Physician Suite features product and services for top-of-the-line service to referring physicians. Sectra RIS/PACS access offers referring physicians all the functionality they require, including on-line ordering, full access to reports and images and easy-to-use imaging tools such as pre-operative planning tools and volume visualization. Extensive HIS/EPR integration provides a single point of entry to complete patient overviews in EPR, including thumbnails of both radiology and non-radiology images. Highlights at ECR included web-based solutions such as:

Sectra LiteView – allows mobile access to images on your iPad greatly enhancing quality of care by decreasing lead times, supporting decision making and patient interaction.
Sectra Order Management - provides an intuitive web-based tool for handling requests and reports. It provides excellent support in the clinical workflow with request input support and examination progression updates thus saving time and enhancing throughput. Together with Sectra Appointment Booking it provides the referring physician with a toolset that greatly enhances the ability to provide service to the patient and increase quality in care.

Sectra Diagnostic Imaging Suite features Sectra’s RIS/PACS solution optimized for efficient radiology workflows. Sectra Diagnostic Imaging Suite significantly increases efficiency by coordinating all components of enterprise workflow thereby speeding up image distribution and report turnaround time to improve the service level to referring physicians and increase referring volume. Highlights at ECR included:

Sectra Self Check-In Terminal - enables the patient to register their arrival on their own. The patient gets all information necessary for the examination and can also pay for the visit by credit card. This eliminates the need for a manned reception and improves the patient flow.
Sectra Instant Messenger - a safe and secure instant messaging fully embedded in Sectra PACS.
Sectra Business Intelligence solution - provides the radiology department with an advanced tool for monitoring PACS and RIS production and performance, including statistics on workflow efficiency, system usage and events such as image deletions and examination warnings.

Sectra Breast Imaging IT suite streamlines mammography workflows within high-volume screening and advanced diagnostic mammography thereby decreasing report turnaround time. Highlights at ECRincluded:

Sectra Breast Imaging PACS features true multi-modality capabilities and now supports display and review of breast tomosynthesis images. Regardless of modality or vendor, all breast images are automatically aligned and displayed side-by-side in the same size and dimension. CAD is an integrated part of the reading workstation, and the ergonomic key pad offers fast and easy access to the most commonly used tools.

Sectra Cross Enterprise Suite features products and services to facilitate cooperation between multiple sites. Sectra will showcase an advanced, future-proof solution for cross-enterprise image sharing built on XDS-I. Full patient history from all connected enterprises is available as if it were a single RIS/PACS system. Apart from images, all existing reports are also shared. Within this product suite Sectra also highlighted:

Sectra Image Central – enables a cost-efficient storage of non-radiology images using existing PACS infrastructure. With Image Central all images and filmclips, regardless of format, from any discipline are included in the cross-enterprise workflow.
Sectra Open Archive -provides the healthcare organizations with a central archiving solution enabling a safe, robust, cost-efficient long-term storage of images across all diagnostic imaging.
Sectra MEI - offers cross-enterprise integration communications with any RIS and PACS on the market. It shares information and workflow between different hospitals and care units. A regional overview of patient data facilitates the availability of requests, reports and radiology images for all authorized users. With Sectra MEI all information is available everywhere within the enterprise.

Sectra Visualization Table - A 46-inch medical multi-touch display enabling multiple users to interact collaboratively and simultaneously with the real-size 3D images generated by CT and MRI scanners to gain deeper understanding and insight into the functions and processes inside the body.

View a demo of Sectra RIS/PACS

View a demo of Sectra Breast Imaging PACS

View a demo of Sectra Visualization Table

Sectra OneScreen - an online service for bone health assessment

Osteoporosis is one of the most painful and costly diseases in the world. By early identification of patients at high risk of osteoporotic fractures, treatment can be initiated that slows down disease development. Treatment is cheap in comparison to the cost for fractures and it is possible that society can even save money from screening women for osteoporosis and thereby prevent fractures. Sectra OneScreen is a cost-effective online service allowing women to assess their bone health at the mammography examination.

View a demo of Sectra OneScreen