Sectra has received an order to deliver an overall IT infrastructure for information exchange and cooperation among hospitals to the Swedish county council Region Skåne. The infrastructure supports automatic sharing and distribution of radiology information to all departments involved in the radiology workflow. Costs decline and production increases when all information is available to all, regardless of location and regardless of where the patient visited last time. Region Skåne encompasses 10 hospitals together performing more than 900,000 radiology examinations annually.
Sectra and Region Skåne have had a cooperation agreement for some time and the IT solution has been in operation in the region’s image and function diagnostic departments. Within the framework of this agreement, Region Skåne has now ordered additional functionality that facilitates an improved distributed radiology cooperation within and outside the region.
With Sectra’s IT solution, hospitals and clinics can exchange radiological patient information independent of the supplier of the radiology image and information processing system. This enhances security for the patient that all relevant information is available to the physician when needed, regardless of the hospital at which previous treatments were carried out. Since only those authorized are provided access to information, the exchange occurs with retained patient integrity.
“With the Sectra system, we have the possibility of information exchange and cooperation within and outside the region,” says Eva Hansson, strategist in the management group – Program Office in Region Skåne. “Through this solution we gain IT support that is geographically and organizationally independent and that provides a seamless handling of care processes between private and public care providers. The information is uniform, coherent, accessible and correct, which will contribute to improved and more efficient care.”
“It is important for us at Sectra to assist our customers with the challenges they face, today and in the future. The trust placed in us by Region Skåne through this order is confirmation that we can deliver future-proof products and meet the high demands our customers place on us,” says Marie Ekström, President, Sectra Scandinavia.
About Region Skåne
Region Skåne is responsible for health care in Skåne. In addition, Region Skåne is responsible on a trial basis for development of business, communications, culture and cooperation with other regions in Sweden and abroad. Region Skåne has some 34,000 employees and sales of about SEK 27 billion annually (2006). Region Skåne’s highest decision body is the Regional Council, whose members are elected by the inhabitants in Skåne, the southernmost county in Sweden, which basically corresponds to the historical province Skåne.
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