Sectra Announces VNA Win in Connecticut

SHELTON, CT, March 21, 2016 /CNW/ - International medical imaging IT company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that Hartford HealthCare (HHC) has entered into a multi-year contract to implement Sectra's vendor neutral archive (VNA) for the handling of patient imaging throughout the healthcare system. The common archiving platform will promote sharing of images between the hospitals, with the goal of driving efficiencies and improving patient care.

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Hartford HealthCare encompasses five acute care hospitals, as well as outpatient services, rehabilitation, and behavioral health networks for residents of Central Connecticut. The initial VNA implementation will encompass integration to radiology, cardiology, and the Epic EMR and will communicate with PACS from four different vendors within the network. HHC will host the archive in its existing virtual environments and data centers. At its onset, the archive will manage 800,000 annual studies and will be the platform for true enterprise image management.  

About Sectra VNA 

Sectra VNA supports a patient-centered workflow by enabling capture, storage and access to virtually any image and multi-media. The solution offers strong total cost of ownership.  Sectra VNA is both storage-vendor agnostic and workflow vendor independent, enabling efficient communication with surrounding systems.

About Sectra 

With more than 20 years in the business, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology, pathology, women's health and orthopaedics. More than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily, making Sectra one of the world-leading companies for handling digital images. For more information, visit http://www.sectra.com

About Hartford HealthCare 

Hartford HealthCare (HHC) is Connecticut's most comprehensive health care network. Its fully integrated health care system includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, two community hospitals, the state's most extensive behavioral health services network, a statewide clinical laboratory system, a large primary care physician practice group, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, and a large physical therapy rehabilitation network. For more information, visit http://www.hartfordhealthcare.org

SOURCE Sectra North America

Andrea Sowitch, Vice President of Marketing, Sectra North America, E-mail: [email protected], Phone: [phone] ext 268, http://www.sectra.com/medical; Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO, Sectra AB, E-mail: [email protected], Phone: [phone]