For a rheumatologist, DAS (Disease Activity Score) is a commonly used clinical tool for the diagnosis of RA (rheumatoid arthritis). Diagnosing an RA patient can many times be a challenge, even for rheumatologists with many years of experience. At Sectra we offer the rheumatologist a complementary tool to monitor RA patients, we offer the technology …

Clinical perspective DAS, DXR, Rheumatoid Arthritis

This week, the annual European congress of rheumatogoly, EULAR, takes place in London and we would like to take the opportunity to highlight some interesting abstracts and presentations connected to DXR. DXR has been used as a method of analysis in several contributions to EULAR this year. There are some very interesting results supporting the predictive …

Clinical perspective DXR, EULAR, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Today’s healthcare strives to practice as much evidence-based medicine as possible. New methods should be well researched, creating a need for close collaboration between hospitals, academia and private enterprise. New technology should be proven to be both effective and cost-efficient – and, of course, easy to implement into daily practice. New treatment options are developed, …

Clinical perspective DXR, preventive healthcare, Rheumatoid Arthritis

We are glad to see DXR is referred to as a prognostic marker in the guidelines of the Swedish Rheumatology Society (SRF).
One may wonder what the time lag is between a …

Clinical perspective DXR, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Returning from EULAR in Rome one might ask what is clinical practice and what is research? Models and predictors of future disease outcome are presented in different forms and variations. The outcome (what the models try to predict) changes between studies, is it …

Clinical perspective DXR, Rheumatoid Arthritis

From a digital hand radiograph and an Internet connection all doctors can find patients in risk of erosions in RA and future fractures in Osteoporosis. Send an image to dxr-online and we will return with decision support.
This is the beginning of something new. We have been working on this for a while and think online …

Clinical perspective DXR, OneScreen, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis