Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 18 | Page 16

NEWS Dutch Deventer Hospital selects Sectra as its imaging IT vendor I nternational medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company, Sectra, has signed a 10-year contract to instal its solution for handling radiology images, Sectra PACS, across the radiology and nuclear medicine departments at Deventer Hospital in the Netherlands. The clinicians at Deventer Hospital will carry out both reading and reporting directly from Sectra PACS. The solution will be tightly integrated with the EMR system, providing clinicians with a complete patient overview in a single application. They will also have all tools available from one workstation, anywhere in the enterprise, which removes the need to switch between workstations to access the tools and information needed. Deventer Hospital treats approximately 300,000 patients and carries out around 125,000 radiology examinations each year. The solution will support increased reading efficiency through its performance and comprehensive toolset, thereby improving patient outcomes. “It was important for us to select a dedicated and experienced vendor and with Sectra we’ll have a partner that will enable us to meet demands both today and in the future. The solution’s track record of high system availability and its ease of use will help us achieve increased productivity and improved care of our patients,” said Shira de Bie, Radiologist at Deventer Hospital. ////////////////// ServiceNow to acquire Appsee’s in-app mobile analytics platform and R&D talent S erviceNow, Forbes’ number one World’s Most Innovative Company in 2018, has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the in-app mobile analytics platform and R&D talent of Appsee, an Israel-based application analytics platform company. will further its mobile application and web browser strategy by adding deep user analytics to the Now Platform. This deal is expected to further enable the company to deliver out-of-the-box, consumer-grade mobile experiences at scale to enterprises. With the acquisition of Appsee’s intellectual property and key Appsee talent, ServiceNow “Making our work lives as mobile friendly as our real lives is the next wave of innovation at work. Increasingly, employees expect and want more consumer-like experiences at work,” said Boaz Hecht, Senior Director of Platform Product Management at ServiceNow. “With Appsee, ServiceNow will be able to optimise its own mobile apps and desktop web experiences to bring consumer grade mobile experiences to our customers. Over time, customers using the Now Platform will be able to better analyse how their end-users are using the Now Platform to make their work simpler and easier.” Appsee will provide ServiceNow, and ServiceNow customers, with insights into user behaviour when interacting with the Now Platform. With this added level of analytics, ServiceNow plans to provide more intuitive user experiences and further improve digital workflows to reduce routine work and free workers up to do more strategic work. 16 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com