Swedish PACS firm Sectra has entered into a multiyear contract with Hartford HealthCare in Hartford, CT, to implement the firm's vendor-neutral archive (VNA) software.
The common archiving platform will promote sharing of images between the hospitals, with the goal of driving efficiencies and improving patient care, the firm said. The initial VNA implementation will include integration with radiology, cardiology, and the institution's Epic electronic medical record (EMR), and it will communicate with PACS from four different vendors within the network.
The healthcare center will host the archive in its existing virtual environments and data centers. At its onset, the archive will manage 800,000 annual studies.
Hartford HealthCare encompasses five acute care hospitals, as well as outpatient services, rehabilitation, and behavioral health networks for residents of central Connecticut.
