Swedish
healthcare
provider
digitises
pathology
for primary
diagnostics
LINK Mobility and
BankBridge in new payment
partnership in Europe
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nternational medical imaging, IT and
cybersecurity company Sectra has
signed a contract with Dalarna County
Council in Sweden for digital pathology.
Dalarna County Council is already using
Sectra’s solution for breast imaging. The
two departments work particularly closely
together in cancer care. Working within
the same system will allow for convenient
sharing of images and information, enabling
efficient integrated diagnostics and patient-
centric care.
“By digitising pathology, we will enable a
closer collaboration between pathologists
as well as with other departments, thereby
increasing efficiency in cancer care,” said
Tibor Tot, Operation Manager for Laboratory
Medicine at Dalarna County Council. “For
example, it will make the preparation of
multidisciplinary team meetings easier as
well as the actual meetings. In addition,
Sectra’s vendor-neutral solution lets us use
different scanners from various vendors
depending on which is most suitable for a
certain type of pathology image. This will be
very important for us moving forward.”
The contract also comprises Sectra’s
solution for sharing pathology images and
collaborating with others. Pathologists at
Dalarna County Council will be able to share
images and collaborate with pathologists
working from elsewhere, both in and outside
the country. It provides efficient use of
resources and an ability to easily discuss
cases with subspecialised pathologists.
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INK Mobility Group ASA, one of
Europe’s leading providers of mobile
messaging and solutions, has entered
into a partnership agreement with
Norwegian payment integration provider
BankBridge to deliver Europe’s first
mobile account-to-account service for
both public and private organisations
issuing mobile invoices to customers.
The service will be launched during
2018/19 across LINK Mobility’s entire
European footprint, a total of 14
European markets including Norway,
Germany, Spain, Sweden and Denmark.
The service will run independently from
third-party payment schemes and
will involve no interchange fees. The
partnership will enable enterprises to
collect payments from their customers
through LINK Mobility’s messaging
channels and receive payment directly
from the account of the user, cutting out
the layer added by other third parties.
LINK Mobility provides the mobile
messaging communication solutions,
while BankBridge provides the payment
infrastructure in the form of a unique
integration architecture that includes a
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fully PSD2 compliant, unified API. The API
enables the instant exchange of bank-to-
bank information and related actions.
“This agreement marks the beginning of
account-to-account payments delivered
independently from the payment schemes
and therefore excludes interchange
fees. We are delighted to be part of this
ground-breaking service that provides
consumers in Europe – and ultimately
across the world – with a smoother and
more convenient way to pay for goods or
services via the mobile,” said Christoffer
Andvig, CEO of BankBridge.
“This is an exciting development and
partnership enabling LINK to add more
innovation and efficiency into our mobile
payment offering, allowing our enterprise
customers to strengthen their own
interaction with their customers when
invoicing their services via the mobile. The
mobile will become the preferred channel
for interaction between consumers and
enterprises. Mobile payment solutions
naturally embedded in the mobile
messaging interaction is the way of the
future,” added Arild Hustad, Group CEO of
LINK Mobility.
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