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Sodertalje Hospital is the first Swedish hospital to go live with Sectra's new diagnostic workstation for radiologists, IDS7/dx. The workstation is part of Sectra's next-generation PACS.

Södertälje Hospital is the first Swedish hospital to go live with Sectra's new diagnostic workstation for radiologists, IDS7/dx. The workstation is part of Sectra's next-generation PACS (system for handling radiology images electronically) and is optimized for distributed reading of radiology images and handling extremely large datasets.

Recent trends in radiology include rapidly increasing data volumes produced by new radiology equipment. New modalities such as multi-slice CT scanners will soon provide up to terabyte datasets for single radiology examinations. Sectra PACS is optimized to handle these large datasets and to enable distributed reading, that is, when examinations are performed at one hospital and reviewed at another location. This makes it possible, for example, for a radiologist to review images from a home office, a routine that is becoming increasingly common.

"At Sectra, we are dedicated to understanding the challenges our customers face and preparing them for the developments to come," says Claes Lundström, Product and Research Manager of Sectra's medical operations. "In fact, we're a little obsessed with meeting our customer's future needs and, with Sectra PACS IDS7, we can do just that."

"With Sectra's new workstation, our radiologists can review images at a location that best suits his or her individual situation, even from home. This enables us to use our resources in the most efficient manner," says Peter Svozil, Head of the Radiology Department at Södertälje Hospital. "Our cooperation with Sectra provides us the absolute leading edge of viable PACS technology based on real clinical needs that will make our everyday work easier.