The University of Hartford (UHart), Connecticut has introduced Sectra’s medical education platform for students in training to become radiologists.
The Swedish medical imaging company’s Sectra Education Portal is designed for students to gain hands-on experience with real clinical cases and give them the use of advanced imaging tools commonly used in hospitals.
Used in over 60 countries, Sectra’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform enables access to a large number of anonymised medical cases and images that the company has collected in collaboration with its clients and which span areas including radiology, histopathology, traumatology, and orthopaedics.
According to Sectra, by providing radiology students with more training possibilities, they will be able to get started faster when they enter working life as radiologists.
Daniel DeMaio, director of UHart’s radiologic technology programme said: "This new platform will be an exciting new resource for our radiologic technology students.
“The field is already highly competitive, and our students enjoy nearly 100 percent job placement within 12 months of graduation. With Sectra's education portal, we can complement time spent in the hospital with effective, interactive, digital studying ensuring that students have the experience they need to succeed."
This month, Sectra expanded its partnership with the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Nord RHF) to include its digital pathology workflow module.
In 2023, Sectra and GE HealthCare teamed up to integrate Sectra’s enterprise imaging diagnostic application with GE HealthCare’s AW Family Advanced Visualization applications to build a workflow initially focused on cardiology using GE HealthCare’s CardIQ Suite.
According to GlobalData analysis, the global diagnostic imaging space was valued at around $36.3bn in 2023 and is forecast to reach a valuation of around $54.8bn by 2033.
Elsewhere in radiology, this month Radiology Partners (RP), the largest radiology practice in the US, announced a partnership with generative artificial intelligence (genAI) software company RADPAIR to further the development of genAI use in radiology.
At the 2024 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, which took place in Chicago from 1 to 4 December, Philips showcased its next-generation BlueSeal 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging system.
