Whittington Health enhances medical education with cutting-edge technology from Sectra
Whittington Health has invested in a solution for medical education from the IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B). Located in the imaging department at Whittington Health, the Sectra Table will be used in the planning and treatment of patients, supporting discussions between clinicians and enhance anatomy teaching by enabling clinicians and students to visualise and interact with natural-size 3D views of real patient’s anatomy rendered from CT or MR images. Whittington Health is the first Trust in England to use this state-of-the-art technology.
“The Sectra Table provides unique opportunities for clinical collaboration with a view to surgical planning, cancer review meetings and educational opportunities for the medical students on the The Whittington Hospital site, says Dr Grant, Consultant Radiologist and Chief Information Officer, at Whittington Health. “It supports our strategy of enhancing patient care by linking to proven state of the art technologies, including our Picture Archiving and Communication System, Sectra PACS, and our EPR”.
Whittington Health provides general hospital and community services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield and Camden. The organisation has a highly-regarded educational role, teaching more than 600 undergraduate medical students, nurses and therapists throughout the year, and providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Sectra’s solution is the result of successfully combining applied research within medical technology and advanced computer science. It has been widely recognised in both industry and consumer media as a unique technology with the potential to change the way medical professionals interact with 3D medical images.
About the Sectra Table
The Sectra Table is a large interactive screen with an image display system that enables interaction with 3D human body images rendered from CT or MR. Detailed studies of virtual bodies provide medical students with a better understanding of anatomy bodily functions and variations between individuals, and greater knowledge of rare diseases already during medical training. The table is part of the IT and medical technology company Sectra’s solutions for medical educations. It also provides opportunities for service development around virtual post-mortem reducing the need for invasive surgical procedures.
Sectra provides solutions for medical education used by universities and training hospitals in more than 16 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The Sectra Table has been developed in cooperation with Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Visualization Center C, The Interactive Institute and Linköping University, Sweden.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, CEO and President, Sectra AB, 46 (0) 705 23 52 27
Mrs. Jane Rendall, Managing Director, Sectra Ltd, 44 (0) 1908 673 107
Press room: www.sectra.com/medical/press
Press images: flickr.com/photos/sectramedicalsystems
About Sectra
Sectra was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. The company’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. Sectra has offices in 12 countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2013/2014 fiscal year totaled SEK 853 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com
In the medical market, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology and other image-intensive departments, orthopaedics and rheumatology. Today, more than 1,700 care providers use Sectra’s system and services. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
