Elekta acquires ProKnow to boost digital radiotherapy strategy

Elekta has acquired ProKnow Systems, in order to expand its offering of cloud-based solutions for advanced radiation therapy. With ProKnow’s products, such as ProKnow DS, Elekta’s customers will have access to high-quality, cloud-based, treatment planning analytics to standardise their practices.

ProKnow DS allows collective data from patient groups to be analysed and offer big data support to oncology teams. The solution can also streamline workflow challenges and improve contouring accuracy and treatment plan quality. The technology is vendor agnostic and is used today by healthcare networks with a variety of treatment planning systems.

Elekta is aware that ProKnow’s capabilities are of particular value to its large customers, potentially giving it an edge as it competes with rival such as Varian Medical Systems.

Ben Nelms, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Director at ProKnow said: “We are very pleased to join the Elekta team. It is truly a great fit, not just in terms of technology, but also mindset. ProKnow and Elekta have a fruitful history of collaboration – such as working together to establish programs for the continual improvement of anatomy contouring and treatment plan quality – and now an even brighter future. We are excited to help stimulate Elekta’s ambitious digital roadmap, and to provide the radiation therapy community with some of the most innovative, useful, and intuitive tools they have ever seen.”

Elekta CEO, Richard Hausmann, said: “This strategic acquisition supports our Elekta Digital initiative and will contribute to accelerating our big data and artificial intelligence efforts as we help healthcare providers to improve decision support, identify best practices and ensure a high quality of care. The solutions that ProKnow brings are especially well-suited to many of our large customers and their need for data management, analytics and workflow automation across their oncology networks. We’re also looking forward to accessing the expertise and competencies within the ProKnow team to continue enhancing analytics under the Elekta umbrella.”

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