Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the first organisation anywhere in the NHS to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging service using public cloud.
The deployment has shown that NHS patient imaging can be efficiently accessed from a secure public cloud environment, just as quickly as when data is stored on-premise.
This has proven important for busy radiology teams at the trust, who have been using the service since the summer, to help them analyze and report on thousands of patient scans that are a vital part of patient diagnosis. The trust delivers around 250,000 imaging reports for patients each year.
Adham Nicola, PACS manager for Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said: “As a first-of-type for public cloud in the NHS, we have proven this works. Being bleeding edge can be a challenge. But we have achieved a milestone in cloud adoption for NHS imaging.
Feedback from radiologists has been positive. The system is reliable, secure, resilient, and performs well, supporting our diagnostic teams with functionality that is very popular. This also has the potential to help us adopt AI in the future.”
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