Case stories
Based on more than 20 years of leading innovation, close cooperation with top research centers and more than 1,000 customers worldwide, Sectra has a solid foundation to provide future-proof solutions for more effective healthcare. The case stories listed below are just a few of the thousand reasons why you can place your trust in us.
Sörmland County – Efficient image handling across department borders
- Sörmland County, Sweden
When Sörmland County Council decided to implement Sectra PACS at its radiology departments, it was with the vision to subsequently establish the system as a structured image handling solution whereby all medical images from all departments would be stored in PACS. This would provide staff with immediate access to the patients’ full image history without having to search through different archives. By exchanging image-based information efficiently, enterprise-wide collaboration and workflows covering the entire healthcare chain would be obtained.
Northern Ireland – The benefits of country-wide radiology
- Northern Ireland, UK
Sectra provides an integrated RIS/PACS solution throughout the entire public healthcare system in Northern Ireland. This is a unique undertaking in the way it links so many hospitals together in a totally seamless workflow of images and information. Over a million examinations will pass through the system annually, with images and reports capable of being read and shared across the region. Top-of-the-line service is provided to referring physicians by making complete patient histories automatically and immediately available to them.
Promedica Health System – Reduced report turnaround times with Sectra RIS
- Toledo, OH, USA
Like many hospitals today with legacy RIS products, Pro Medica Health System found itself needing to replace its 15-year-old RIS, which was being sunset. It chose a RIS from existing PACS vendor, Sectra, to achieve both seamless integration between RIS and PACS and single-vendor convenience. Learn how Sectra RIS enabled ProMedica Health System to standardize across their enterprise, improve workflow efficiency and reduce report turnaround time.
Västmanland County – Radiologists slash report turnaround time by 50%
- Västmanland County, Sweden
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 Sectra RIS, the time between examination and a signed report, preliminary or authorized, has been cut by more than 50%. And this applies to both urgent and non-urgent examinations.
Memorial Hospital – Setting the stage for second-generation PACS success
- Gulfport, MS, USA
Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi, launched an ambitious five-year expansion project that included transitioning to digital image management, tripling the size of the diagnostic imaging department, building a cancer center and deploying digital imaging technologies. The vision was clear: transform the hospital into a model 21st century community hospital campus.
Telemedicine Clinic – A modern pan-european healthcare service actor
- Barcelona, Spain
For TMC, with its center in Spain and reading radiologists working from other parts of Europe and Australia, collaborating across the wide geographical area provides a substantial challenge. TMC’s objective is to support public hospitals by establishing a more efficient solution to centralizing and sharing specialist competence.
Hartford Hospital – Streamlining operations at a level one trauma center
- Hartford, CT, USA
As the largest hospital in the State of Connecticut, with a Level 1 trauma center, 26 intensive care units, a staff of 7,000 and 1,200 affiliated physicians, Hartford Hospital needed a high-performance PACS. In 2003, Sectra did not have an independent North American sales team. Its PACS was being exclusively sold, configured, and serviced by a multinational diagnostic modality and therapy equipment vendor. When Sectra established its own North American team to independently sell and provide service for its PACS, Hartford Hospital decided it might be prudent to investigate switching its service contract directly to Sectra.
Nightingale Centre – Europe’s first purpose built breast cancer prevention center
- Manchester, UK
The Nightingale Centre in Manchester, UK is Europe’s first purpose-built breast cancer prevention center. The center invites 50,000 women for screening per year and assesses about 50 per week. Every week, it also sees 200 symptomatic women. Over the past years, the Nightingale Centre has progressed through a number of steps to become the top modern breast screening facility it is today. Key challenges on the way have been integration among different IT systems and imaging modalities, support of the center’s varying workflows as well as finding solutions that are simply easy to use.
Solis Women’s Health – A network of independent breast imaging centers
- USA
Solis Women’s Health is a network of independent breast imaging centers whose unified purpose is to deliver patient focused diagnostic imaging services to promote breast health. Six of the centers of this Austin, Texas based corporation are clustered in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The seventh, and the most recent acquisition, is located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Collectively, Solis’ breast centers currently perform more than 90,000 mammograms in a year, and is expected to grow to over 200,000.
University of California, San Francisco – Improved breast imaging workflow with Sectra Breast Imaging PACS
- San Francisco, CA, USA
University of California-San Fransico replaced their existing radiology workstations with Sectra Breast Imaging PACS in order to shorten report turn around times. Not only do the now have true multi-modality capabilities, but radiologists can now park a set of images from one case during a diagnostic mammogram and return to them after working on another case; they also can see in real-time if another radiologist is reviewing a case. The technologist can easily view radiologist annotations on a workstation in the exam room without needing to leave her patient to go into the radiology reading room.
Increased efficiency at Danderyd Mammography Unit
- Stockholm, Sweden
The mammography unit at Danderyd hospital uses Sectra Breast Imaging PACS and Sectra RIS and invites approximately 40 000 women yearly for mammography screening. The participant rate is 75%. Since November 2011 the Sectra RIS Self Check-in terminal is installed in the mammography department. “Thanks to the Sectra Self Check-in terminal we have been able to shorten the waiting time in the reception area and speed up the screening workflow”, says Margareta Ståhl, Head Nurse at the mammography department.