Sectra has expanded its partnership with the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Nord RHF) to include its digital pathology workflow module.
The Swedish medical imaging company’s pathology platform digitises and archives images to enable users to access them when needed. Mitigating traditional techniques around pathology, in which glass slides of patient tissues need to be packaged and transported to different locations where specialists can view them, the expanded partnership is expected to help clinicians in Helse Nord RHF save time on manual processes and strengthen data security.
Sectra Scandinavia’s general manager, Petter Østbye, commented: “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Helse Nord RHF to include digital pathology.
“Many healthcare providers are adopting an enterprise imaging strategy as a key component to enhance patient outcomes. By integrating digital pathology into their workflow, Helse Nord RHF will experience enhanced collaboration among pathologists and other medical specialities, leading to more accurate and timely diagnoses,” Østbye concluded.
Kai-Sverre Fjellberg, imaging services manager at Helse Nord RHF, said the region anticipates the digital solution will enhance collaboration between hospitals that support each other with second opinions and expertise, and medical specialities that collaborate in complex care pathways such as cancer care.
In November 2023, Sectra and GE HealthCare entered a partnership under which the companies plan to combine Sectra’s enterprise imaging diagnostic application with GE Healthcare’s AW Family Advanced Visualization applications to build a workflow, initially focused on cardiology and using GE HealthCare’s CardIQ Suite, to tackle the expanding workload of radiologists.
In April 2023, UK-based Stockport National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust became the first hospital in Northwest England to go live with Sectra’s digital imaging tools for pathology assessment.
According to GlobalData analysis, the global diagnostic imaging market was valued at around $36.31bn in 2023 and is forecast to reach around $54.87bn by 2033.
In related medical imaging news, Philips recently showcased its next-generation BlueSeal 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system at the 2024 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, which took place in Chicago, US, from 1 to 5 December.
Other companies that held presentations at the meeting included Laurel Bridge Software on its newest generation of secure cross-enterprise workflow orchestration, image sharing and AI enablement tools, and United Imaging on the world’s first installation of uMI Panvivo, its positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) platform, at Pueblo Medical Imaging in Nevada, US.
