Sectra AB has signed a contract with Kent and Medway Medical Imaging Consortium. The new agreement will help a consortium of trusts deliver faster diagnoses, improve capacity and deliver community diagnostics. Benefits from utilizing the same imaging system as many other trusts across large of South East England are also expected.

The radiology module of Sectra's enterprise imaging solution will be implemented across the trusts alongside Sectra's vendor neutral archive. In addition to the initial focus on radiology and medical photography, the enterprise imaging solution provides the potential to expand the program to other diagnostic disciplines in the future--for example, digital pathology. The Sectra solution will support up to 1.4 million exams each year across the consortium.

It will simplify the processes for multi-disciplinary meetings--with easy availability of images creating efficiencies. The program will also reduce the need for staff to log in and out of different radiology systems. Third-party visualization tools, for example, will now open and close in patient context in the PACS, and PACS-based reporting, integrated into the consortium's radiology information system, will reduce the need for radiologists to manually access the RIS. The new system will also integrate into the Kent and Medway Breast Screening Service PACS, already provided by Sectra.

Trusts in the region will also be able to make the most of AI potential, with interoperable applications expected to seamlessly integrate with the new PACS and radiology workflows. The contract was signed in April 2022 and draws on the Sectra One subscription model that allows easy scalability of the solution.