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Sectra highlights at RSNA 2011

At RSNA 2011, Sectra showcased the latest development within its radiology IT suites and women’s health offering.

Sectra Diagnostic Imaging Suite, Referring Physicians Suite and Cross-Enterprise Suite feature the latest news within RIS and PACS. Each suite combines the solutions needed for streamlined workflows within the various aspects of diagnostic imaging.

Furthermore, Sectra highlighted features within its North American RIS that support certification criteria to meet Meaningful Use objectives under the ARRA’s EHR Incentive Program to increase customers’ profitability.

Radiology IT solutions

Sectra Diagnostic Imaging Suite features Sectra’s web based RIS/PACS solution optimized for efficient radiology workflows. Sectra Diagnostic Imaging Suite significantly increases efficiency by coordinating all components of enterprise workflow, including efficient planning, ADT, order-entry, scheduling, optimal patient throughput and documentation, reporting, follow-up and billing.

News at RSNA included:

A single workstation reporting solution with embedded speech recognition within Sectra PACS, regardless or RIS or HIS, to further streamline radiologist’s workflows.
Sectra RIS for North America – New EHR Module provides clinical decision support tools as part of its computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system that utilizes the ACR Appropriateness Criteria® and lab test workflow. The CPOE is integrated with the Sectra RIS Referring Physician Portal. The EHR module also includes a Patient Portal to provide e-mail result notifications to patients and display all relevant healthcare information and history. The Sectra RIS EHR Module supports certification criteria to meet Meaningful Use objectives under the ARRA’s EHR Incentive Program.
Sectra RIS for North America offers the flexibility of a PACS-driven reporting workflow (with any PACS) or the existing RIS-driven reporting workflow through its embedded Nuance PowerScribe® Speech Recognition solution.

Sectra Referring Physician Suite features product and services for top-of-the-line service to referring physicians. Sectra RIS/PACS web-based access offers referring physicians all the functionality they require, including on-line ordering, full access to reports and images and advanced 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. News at RSNA includes:

Sectra Referring Physician Portal for North America – New EHR functionality provides clinical decision support tools as part of its computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system that utilizes the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®. The CPOE is integrated with the Sectra RIS Referring Physician Portal. The Sectra RIS EHR Module supports certification criteria to meet Meaningful Use objectives under the ARRA’s EHR Incentive Program.
Computerized Physician Order Entry for the Northern European market with support for referring physicians to book appointments that automatically are verified and registered in RIS. This novelty is available through a web interface or in HIS via HL7 and reduces the need for radiology resources for request handling.

Sectra Cross Enterprise Suite features products and services to facilitate cooperation between multiple sites. Built on the unique Sectra RapidConnectTM technology, Sectra RIS/PACS allows radiologists to work from any location that offers reasonable Internet access, and to easily share images and information between multiple locations. 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 highlights:

Sectra Image Central – A solution for non-radiology images. With Image Central all images and filmclips, regardless of format, from any discipline are included in the cross-enterprise workflow.
Sectra Open Archive - A central archiving solution that provide the healthcare organizations with a safe, robust, cost-efficient long-term storage of images across all diagnostic imaging.

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 Visualization Table

Women’s health solutions

Sectra OneScreen
At RSNA Sectra launched Sectra OneScreen - a cost-effective online solution to identify patients in the risk group for osteoporosis. The service is especially convenient in combination with mammography. With a single, standard X-ray image of the hand the women’s bone health (Bone Mineral Density, BMD) is estimated, using the patented DXR (Digital X-ray Radiogrammetry) technology. The image is taken at the same time as breast images, using the same radiology equipment. It is then sent to Sectra’s online lab for analysis. With the BMD result and other known risk factors, individuals with increased risk of future fractures can easily be identified.

Sectra Breast Imaging PACS
Sectra also showcased Sectra Breast Imaging PACS, which offers tools to streamline mammography workflows within high-volume screening and advanced diagnostic mammography. Launched at RSNA is the possibility to read breast tomosynthesis images in Sectra Breast Imaging PACS.

Sectra Breast Imaging PACS features true multi-modality capabilities and offers instant access to all the advanced diagnostic tools needed by a radiologist in a single diagnostic workstation. 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.

View a demo of Sectra Breast Imaging PACS

View a demo of Sectra OneScreen

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.

Sectra UserInfluence

At RSNA Sectra launched Sectra User Influence, a web forum where Sectra customers can influence, and comment on products that are currently being developed. A tight cooperation with customers has always been at the core of Sectra’s product development. We believe it is the only way we can develop products that really make a difference to their daily work. UserInfluence enables a dialog similar to that available in social media platforms between Sectra developers, product managers and customers around the globe.

Press releases

Half of all middle-aged women in Sweden will suffer from osteoporosis and 80% will not even be diagnosed February 7, 2012Medical Systems In Sweden, 70,000 fractures are caused by osteoporosis every year. It is one of the most expensive diseases and is estimated to cost society about SEK 4.6 billion annually. Today, osteoporosis can be diagnosed using a simple Swedish method and treated with inexpensive and effective medication. If all women over the age of 65 were examined in conjunction with their mammography examination, the progression of the disease could essentially be stopped. This would also entail major savings for taxpayers.
Sectra to provide suite of integrated radiology IT solutions to Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, USA January 16, 2012Medical Systems Sectra announces its multi-year agreement with Nashville General Hospital at Meharry. Sectra’s suite of web-based, integrated RIS/PACS solutions for radiology, breast imaging and orthopaedics will enable the hospital to automate workflow, speed image distribution and report turnaround to improve its service level to referring physicians and increase referring volume.
Mission-Critical Innovation Awards to University Hospitals using Sectra’s IT solution November 29, 2011Medical Systems University Hospitals in Cleveland (UH), USA, has been announced the winner in the category “Humanitarian/Environmental Impact” in the Mission-Critical Innovations Awards, a worldwide competition presented by HP and Intel®. The competition has rewarded UH for its disaster-tolerant Sectra PACS solution for processing and archiving of digital radiology images.

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