Sectra signs long-term contract with Swedish County Council to deliver radiology IT service
Linköping, December 21, 2015 - Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a multi-year contract with Norrbottens Läns Landsting (NLL), a Swedish County Council. NLL has purchased Sectra’s IT solution for efficient handling of radiology images and patient information (PACS and RIS) as a cloud service hosted within the healthcare organization. Under the contract, Sectra will assume overall responsibility for technology, administration and maintenance of the County Council’s radiological IT system, which will give NLL increased capacity to focus on its core operation – offering rapid and effective care. The order value amounts to approximately EUR 6.5 million.
Norrbotten County Council comprises five hospitals, as well as a number of medical centers, which have joint responsibility for the care of the 250,000 residents in the region. The County Council conducts approximately 200,000 radiology examinations each year. NLL already uses Sectra’s systems for management of patient information.
“With a new, comprehensive radiological imaging system, we will gain new functionality and more efficient handling of examinations and accompanying images, which will result in more rapid and accurate reporting of diagnostic observations. In particular, this applies to our cancer patients, an area in which we are seeing a rising need for cooperation and faster exchange of information,” says Maria Bergkvist, County Manager of Imaging and Functional Medicine in the County Healthcare Division.
Sectra is providing the IT system as a comprehensive cloud service with high demands on availability, performance and security.
“We are seeing increased demand from our customers for the purchase of IT solutions such as cloud services, as this generates large cost and operational advantages for customers and suppliers,” says Magnus Sjöberg, Sales Manager for Sectra’s operations in Scandinavia.
Focus on cancer care
Most patients undergo a radiological examination as part of the diagnosis and treatment of their illness or injury. This means that the possibility of handling radiology images simply and efficiently, and communicating these to personnel in other care units, is of major importance for the quality of the care provided to the patients.
To enable healthcare providers to give better, faster and more patient-centered care, Sectra offers systems and services for comprehensive handling and storage of all types of medical images, primarily for large image diagnostics units, such as radiology, mammography and pathology, but also in other departments where medical imaging material is used. Medical images for cancer diagnostics run as a common thread through Sectra’s offering.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, CEO and President Sectra AB, +46 (0) 705 23 52 27
Marie Ekström, Executive Vice President Sectra AB and President Sectra Imaging IT solutions, +46 (0) 708 23 56 10
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About Sectra
Sectra was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. The company’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. Sectra has subsidiaries in 14 countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2014/2015 fiscal year totaled SEK 961 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com
In the medical market, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology and other image-intensive departments, orthopaedics and rheumatology. More than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
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