BreastScreen NSW first in Australia to improve patient care with secure image sharing service from Sectra
Sydney, Australia – October 13, 2020 – BreastScreen New South Wales (NSW) has now gone live with international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra’s (STO: SECT B) cloud service for medical image sharing and collaboration. The service will facilitate secure medical image and information sharing with clients, surgeons, private radiology providers and other service providers in the BreastScreen organization. Remote image sharing will improve efficiency by eliminating the need to handle CDs, and minimize the risks associated with new and unnecessary radiology examinations when visiting another healthcare provider.
BreastScreen NSW has been using Sectra’s solution for handling radiology images in their breast imaging operations since 2005. Approximately 350,000 exams are performed annually across the region. Sectra’s subscription-based service will now be used for those exams where images need to be shared with someone outside the BreastScreen NSW organization.
Sectra’s share and collaborate cloud service is vendor-neutral, enabling healthcare providers to share images and information with anyone. Eliminating the need for CDs, USB drives, and paper copies reduces costs, avoids unnecessary exams, and improves patient data security. It also supports competence and resource exchanges, making it possible for two parties to collaborate around workload balancing or second opinion workflows, for example.
“Our share and collaborate service has a long history of tangibly improving patient care, for example, across the entire network of healthcare providers in the UK. With the service now established here in Australia, I’m excited about the possibilities for improving patient care through efficient, secure and vendor-neutral sharing of images and patient information,” says Bart Thielen, Managing Director of Sectra Australia and New Zealand.
The solution now used by BreastScreen NSW is part of Sectra’s enterprise imaging offering, which provides a unified strategy for all imaging needs while lowering operational costs. It is a scalable and modular solution, with a VNA at its core, that allows healthcare providers to grow from ology to ology and from enterprise to enterprise. Read more about Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution and why Sectra PACS is “Best in KLAS” at medical.sectra.com.
About Sectra
Sectra assists hospitals throughout the world to enhance the efficiency of care, and authorities and defense forces in Europe to protect society’s most sensitive information. Thereby, Sectra contributes to a healthier and safer society. The company was founded in 1978, has its head office in Linköping, Sweden, with direct sales in 19 countries, and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2019/2020 fiscal year totaled SEK 1,661 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. For more information, visit sectra.com.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, CEO and President Sectra AB, +46 (0) 705 23 52 27
Bart Thielen, Managing Director Sectra Australia and New Zealand, +61 (0) 437 806 234
