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Portuguese hospital expands its VNA
from Sectra with digital pathology
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nternational medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company,
Sectra, has signed a digital pathology contract with Instituto
Português de Oncologia de Lisboa (IPO Lisboa).
IPO Lisboa is renowned for its cancer care and is the first hospital
in Portugal to seamlessly include digital pathology in its existing
VNA. The solution allows pathologists to access images from any
workstation within the hospital as well as remotely and enables
integrated diagnostic workflows, especially important for improving
cancer care.
“Sectra’s digital pathology solution gives us access to already-
proven calculation algorithms that will translate into greater
reproduci bility of results and have an impact on clinical decisions,”
said Dr José Cabeçadas, Pathology Manager, Instituto Português de
Oncologia de Lisboa.
IPO Lisboa is expanding its medical imaging IT solution for
radiology to also include pathology. The solution will provide
pathologists with instant access to images and related data, digital
tools for reviewing the images and the ability to collaborate across
both departments and locations.
“The use of a single system for the entire hospital guarantees
a universal availability of resources and the possibility to work
remotely,” continued Dr Cabeçadas. “An immediate additional
benefit is that the solution will provide increased efficiency in the
preparations for multidisciplinary meetings.”
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Avaya transforms Portugal’s emergency
services communications systems
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vaya Holdings has announced that
Portugal’s emergency services have
adopted its suite of communication
solutions to transform their existing systems
in preparation for eCall, the next-generation
automated vehicle aid system.
A life-saving innovation that is mandatory
in all new passenger-vehicle types approved
for sale in the European Union, eCall allows
telemetry data to be sent from a vehicle
to emergency services when an accident
occurs, providing accurate incident location
and other vital information that dispatchers
can use to send help much faster and more
effectively to help save lives.
With 25,670 fatalities in 2016 and over
135,000 serious injuries on EU roads and
motorways in 2014, according to the
European Transport Safety Council’s Road
Safety Performance Index, eCall is estimated
to reduce emergency response time by 40%
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in built-up areas and 50% in the countryside,
saving as many as 2,500 lives and over €130
billion in costs to society each year.
As a result, emergency services across
Portugal have been running tests to
demonstrate readiness to receive and
respond to these new automated calls.
As the global market leader in contact
centre solutions, Avaya was selected
because of its ecosystem and open
platform structure, enabling integration
across a variety of different systems.
The solutions deployed include: the creation
of a new centre in Porto to increase resiliency
and geographic redundancy; a complete
refresh of the existing emergency service
data centre in Lisbon; and an upgrade of
the existing communication environment,
including a subsequent integration into its
dispatching application.
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