Scotland

Forth Valley Royal Hospital, located in Larbert, has received its third Zenition 30 mobile C-arm system from Philips, making it the first facility in Scotland to adopt this advanced technology. Feedback from the hospital reveals that staff are pleased to be moving forward with flat panel detector C-arms. They expressed their appreciation for having their […]

Synapse Medical UK, part of Uniphar Medtech, announces a landmark partnership with Agfa Radiology Solutions. Synapse Medical UK will provide a full end-to-end sales and technical service offering for Agfa Radiology Solutions comprehensive medical imaging product portfolio across Scotland. This strategic alliance comes at a crucial moment when healthcare providers are urgently seeking to enhance […]

Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, has installed the Alphenix Sky+, making it the first hospital in Scotland to benefit from Canon Medical’s most advanced ceiling-mounted imaging system. This will bring complex interventional procedures in-house and increase patient throughput. The Alphenix Sky+ is said to offer superior imaging quality and the 220° rotation needed to carry […]

First of four NHS sites roll out head CT AI to highlight critical head injury scans. A pioneering new multi-NHS site initiative has gone live, aiming to improve radiology report turnaround times for non-contrast CT head scans by creating prioritised reporting worklists of critical findings. This will allow emergency department (ED) clinicians at the Queen […]

Healthcare professionals in Scotland are to benefit from an agreement that will see a cloud-based enterprise imaging service delivered across 15 NHS boards by Sectra. The agreement with NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) will provide tools to support healthcare teams as they review and report on around five million radiology examinations a year. Sectra One […]

A digital health collaboration between the Scottish Government, University of Glasgow, Qure.ai and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is rolling out the AI-powered chest x-ray reporting solution qXR across Glasgow. It is part of a national coordinated evaluation of AI in radiology to improve lung cancer patient outcomes, and to prove clinical and cost effectiveness. […]

Royal Philips and NHS National Services Scotland have revealed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Scottish Breast Screening Programme (SBSP) and the measures taken to deal with the backlog of appointments. Philips’ vendor-neutral Vue PACS allows the programme’s six breast screening centres and its mobile screening units to interoperate with Scotland’s national PACS, […]

An AI created by Bering Limited and a study conducted by iCAIRD, Scotland’s Industrial Centre for AI Research in Digital Diagnostics, have yielded promising results from chest x-rays in a simulated clinical test setting to speed up COVID-19 diagnosis in patients who presented to emergency departments with respiratory symptoms. The iCAIRD study was in partnership […]