UK NHS Trust Moves Imaging System to Cloud
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is moving its enterprise medical imaging solution to a cloud service provided by Sectra. The transition to Sectra One Cloud is intended to ensure the secure delivery of patient care.
- The five-year contract is valued at approximately £2.8 million, with £1.8 million guaranteed, and will initially cover radiology and breast imaging modules for the trust. - James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of approximately 250,000 residents across Norfolk and north-east Suffolk in the east of England. - This move is part of a broader strategic priority across the UK's NHS to transition to cloud services, enabling more connected and sustainable healthcare delivery. - By shifting infrastructure management to Sectra, the trust's local IT teams can focus on clinical priorities rather than system maintenance, while ensuring high availability and performance. - The Sectra One Cloud service is a fully managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform, designed to provide secure and scalable operations. - Other NHS trusts, including a collaboration between London North West University Healthcare and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, are also consolidating imaging systems on this platform to improve collaboration across hospitals, serving a combined 1.5 million people. - Adopting a cloud infrastructure is a foundational step for healthcare providers to utilize future AI and machine learning technologies for faster and more advanced image analysis. - The cloud model allows for greater scalability to manage the growing volume of medical imaging data and offers more robust disaster recovery capabilities compared to on-premise servers.
