Homerton Healthcare achieves milestone with enterprise imaging via the cloud

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the first organisation in the NHS to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging service using public cloud. Sectra says this deployment has shown that NHS patient imaging can be efficiently accessed from a secure public cloud environment as quickly as when data is stored on the premises.

Radiology teams at the trust have been using the service to help them analyse and report patient scans. The trust delivers around 250,000 imaging reports for patients each year.
Trust PACS manager Adham Nicola 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 nothing but positive. The system is highly reliable, secure, resilient and performs well, supporting our diagnostic teams with lots more functionality that is proving very popular with radiologists. This also has the potential to help us to adopt AI in the future.”

The enterprise imaging service has been deployed using the Sectra One Cloud subscription model. Sectra is providing a fully managed software as a service (SaaS), meaning users will automatically gain access to relevant functionality and tools as they are released.

Staff have praised features including a chat tool that allows radiologists to share images and communicate with each other as they create reports. Orthopaedic templating is helping surgeons as they plan for surgery, and means the trust is no longer reliant on a third-party application.

Homerton Healthcare is the first of three trusts within the North East London Health and Care Partnership planning to adopt enterprise imaging in the public cloud.

Picture: The enterprise imaging service has been deployed using the Sectra One Cloud subscription model.

Published on page 20 of the May 2024 issue of RAD Magazine.