TA pays $400-million-plus for 30 per cent stake in Montreal imaging software challenger Intelerad

The quaint English phrase “Good things come to those who wait” is apt advice to industry stakeholders bullish on the adoption of cloud technology for imaging IT. After a decade of wholesale change to imaging IT, there is little evidence to show cloud adoption has progressed towards the mainstream. Yet, a growing array of cloud-based imaging IT solutions are now available and cloud is again being widely debated.

Wandering the exhibition floor this year, any outsider to the health IT industry would have assumed interoperability was a problem already solved. Exhibitors across the hall boasted ever-growing portfolios of clinical, diagnostic and operational software, all of which seemingly could be implemented and interconnected simply and efficiently.

A little over a year ago, we identified the strong performance of Sectra in the global Imaging IT market and outlined the core aspects of its strategy here.