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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland will implement an IT system provided by Sectra through a ten-year agreement.

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland will implement an integrated solution for managing radiology information and images (RIS/PACS) provided by the Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra through a ten-year agreement. The solution will be used throughout the entire public healthcare system in Northern Ireland. The contract is valued at GBP 30 million and represents Sectra's largest order to date.

Within radiology, the need for increased efficiency is expressed by hospitals' demand to process more information, faster and at lower cost without compromising quality in patient care. This creates a demand for efficient integrated RIS/PACS solutions that enable sharing of information and reading of images generated at several hospitals.

"This major project is unique in the way it links together so many hospitals for a totally seamless workflow of images and information throughout their entire public healthcare system," says Jan Wolffram, Managing Director of Sectra in the UK and Ireland.

Northern Ireland has about 1.8 million inhabitants and nearly one million radiology examinations are carried out every year. The installation is of significant size including some 25 hospitals, organised in five Trusts.