The financial situation and the increased demands on healthcare efficiency that follows is a hot discussion topic at RSNA. Many of the conversations in Sectra’s booth relates to how increased co-operation across hospital and clinical borders can help meet those demands on increased productivity and at the same time, provide improved patient care.

The South East Trust in Northern Ireland, which went live with Sectra RIS/PACS last week and who visited Sectra’s booth at RSNA this year, is one example of hospitals seing the benefits in cooperating. The five hospitals in this trust are the first of  a total of 25 hospitals, together performing more than 1 million examinations per year, who will be connected in one common radiology IT solution covering the entire public healthcare in Northern Ireland.

Solutions for increased productivity is Sectra’s main focus at RSNA 2009. Sectra RIS/PACS is a performance solution for wide area radiology. Built on the Sectra RapidConnect™ technology it enables efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for large image stacks over strained networks. This way, Sectra RIS/PACS provides the opportunity to cope with ever-expanding challenges such as increased financial pressure, shortage of resources as well as increasing data volumes.

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