Belgium-based healthcare provider UZ Leuven has entered into an enterprise imaging contract with medical imaging IT company Sectra to bolster its cancer diagnostics.
Under the ten-year agreement, UZ Leuven will deploy a digital pathology module of Sectra to offer its pathologists a comprehensive digital solution for primary diagnostics.
The use of this offering is aimed at enhancing cancer care and save time.
UZ Leuven hematopathologist Dr Thomas Tousseyn said: “We have been using digital pathology in a limited capacity for multiple years.
“As we now take the step to go fully digital for primary diagnostics, we want to ensure to have a solution that both provides pathologists with a state-of-the-art application and gives us the freedom to optimise our choice of related software and scanners.”
The digital pathology solution is a component of Sectra's enterprise imaging offering, which caters to various imaging needs and for reducing operational expenditure.
With a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) at its core, the solution is said to be scalable and modular, to facilitate healthcare institutions in expanding their services across various specialities and enterprises.
Sectra Benelux Managing Director Bart Thielen said: “Healthcare providers, especially the larger university hospitals, have gathered experiences from their own or others’ implementations of digital pathology.
“The value of vendor neutrality when it comes to choosing scanners is becoming clear in many of these projects. Sectra has a track record of both promoting and enabling open integrations and of supporting large-scale primary diagnostic workflows. I look forward to utilizing that know-how to support UZ Leuven as they take their next steps for improved patient care.”
Earlier this month, Sectra’s One Cloud service was appointed by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) in the UK to deliver a fully managed Cloud service to BHRUT, taking responsibility for monitoring, optimising and upgrading the system, as well as offering round-the-clock support.
