Trusted by NHS organisations, imaging networks, diagnostic providers, and healthtech innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle Sectra RIS integration, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We build secure, scalable integrations for electronic referrals, radiology dashboards, reporting tools, patient communications, AI workflows, regional sharing, and clinical decision support.
Our team combines radiology workflow knowledge with expertise in HL7 FHIR, HL7 messaging, DICOM, REST APIs, contextual launch, identity management, and clinical safety. We ensure requests, images, reports, and alerts remain accurately linked to the correct patient, examination, and clinical team.
Understanding Sectra RIS
Sectra provides radiology and enterprise imaging technology used across healthcare organisations and imaging networks. Its platform supports diagnostic workflows spanning imaging requests, examinations, image management, reporting, and results distribution.
Sectra’s radiology environment integrates with PACS, EPR, PAS, modalities, VNA, reporting tools, AI applications, and other clinical systems. Configurable workflows and worklists support radiographers, radiologists, and operational teams across individual departments and multi-site services.
The wider Sectra Enterprise Imaging platform also supports cross-site image access, distributed reporting, collaboration, and information sharing across multiple clinical specialties.
Third-party AI and decision-support tools can also be incorporated into established imaging workflows to support prioritisation, reporting, and diagnostic processes.
Our Sectra RIS Integration Process
We begin with structured discovery involving radiology, clinical, operational, digital, technical, and governance stakeholders. Together, we define workflows, users, data requirements, safety constraints, and intended outcomes.
Typical integrations include electronic imaging requests, demographic synchronisation, appointment information, examination updates, contextual viewer launch, reporting and AI tools, report distribution, patient communications, and analytics.
We map identifiers and information throughout the imaging lifecycle, including NHS numbers, local identifiers, referrals, procedures, appointments, accession numbers, worklists, examination statuses, images, reports, amendments, and acknowledgements.
Architecture may use HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, DICOM, DICOMweb, integration engines, secure web services, contextual launch, or event-driven messaging. We define responsibilities across Sectra, PACS, VNA, EPR, PAS, modalities, and connected applications.
Authentication can support OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, service accounts, and role-based access.
Reusable components accelerate delivery, including HL7 parsers, FHIR handlers, DICOM connectors, identity-matching services, and routing pipelines. Secure testing validates referrals, patient matching, appointments, accession handling, worklists, reports, permissions, audit trails, failure recovery, and downtime reconciliation.
Before launch, we coordinate acceptance testing, clinical safety review, deployment, training, and documentation. After go-live, we monitor data flows, resolve issues, and maintain compatibility with Sectra and NHS changes.
Benefits of Sectra RIS Integration
Clinicians gain faster access to requests, examination status, images, and reports within established workflows. Radiology teams receive accurate electronic referral information, supporting effective planning and reducing clarification.
Scheduling and communication integrations improve appointment coordination, preparation instructions, cancellations, and rescheduling. Radiographers benefit from accurate patient and procedure information, while radiologists gain connected reporting, viewing, AI, and decision-support tools.
Patients benefit from smoother pathways and fewer delays between referral, booking, imaging, reporting, and follow-up.
Operational teams gain visibility of demand, waiting times, capacity, backlogs, and turnaround times. Imaging networks can also support shared reporting, cross-site image access, and consistent workflows.
For healthtech vendors, Sectra integration provides reusable, standards-based access to established NHS imaging environments.
Why Choose 6B for Sectra RIS Integration?
6B designs around the complete radiology pathway, keeping information accurate and traceable from referral through results delivery.
Our specialists understand HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, DICOM, DICOMweb, APIs, integration engines, secure web services, and event-driven messaging.
We manage complex terminology and coding requirements, including procedure catalogues, modality codes, laterality, urgency, examination status, report types, and amendments.
Reusable message handlers, DICOM connectors, matching services, authentication flows, transformation frameworks, validation tools, and monitoring components accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
Security, governance, and privacy are embedded through encryption, role-based access, permissions, audit logging, data minimisation, and sensitive-information controls.
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Readiness checklist for Sectra RIS Integration
- Define the radiology workflows and use cases your integration will support, such as referral, scheduling, image access, reporting, AI workflows, patient communication, or analytics.
- Identify the Sectra, EPR, PAS, order communications, PACS, VNA, modality, AI, and third-party systems involved in each workflow.
- Confirm which HL7 messages, FHIR resources, RESTful APIs, DICOM services, contextual-launch methods, or integration-engine connections are available within the target deployment.
- Map patient identifiers, referrals, appointments, accession numbers, procedure codes, studies, examination statuses, reports, amendments, and acknowledgements across connected systems.
- Confirm how procedure catalogues, modality codes, body sites, laterality, urgency, report statuses, and clinical alerts will be mapped and validated.
- Define which system will act as the source of truth for demographics, referrals, appointments, examination status, images, reports, and report amendments.
- Document how shared worklists, cross-site image access, and distributed reporting will operate where Sectra supports regional or multi-site workflows.
- Confirm authentication, authorisation, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, role-based access, organisation context, encryption, service-account, and audit-logging requirements.
- Prepare governance and clinical safety documentation, including the lawful basis, DPIA, DSPT position, and applicable DCB0129 or DCB0160 responsibilities.
Speak To Our Sectra RIS Integration Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital health product or extending an existing solution with Sectra RIS integration, 6B brings the technical expertise, healthcare insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
