New York City's Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) orders Sectra PACS
New York City´s Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) orders Sectra PACS Sectra, through its partner Philips Medical Systems, has received an order for Radiology PACS SW for four large New York City Hospitals; Metro Hospital, Lincoln Hospital, Harlem Hospital and Bellevue Hospital. All intend to start film free operation after the summer. "The order is a great success for us and our partner Philips Medical Systems", noted Dr. John Goble, President of Sectra North America. "Sectra's experience in delivering large scale PACS SW combined with Philips' unsurpassed sales, service and support organization were important factors in the customers' decision." "This order, in total, becomes one of the largest civilian PACS orders in the US. Sectra's leadership in High Availability, Distributed Database design and an advanced Diagnostic Workstation that optimizes physician productivity make the system ideal for high volume facilities like those in New York" Goble added. Sectra and Philips have a very long and committed partnership in PACS. The companies provided one of the first film free radiology departments in Europe already 1994. In the U.S. Sectra in cooperation with Philips Medical Systems NA also has delivered PACS-systems to e.g. Riverside County Regional Medical Center LA, and Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. For further information, please contact: Sectra Imtec AB, Torbjörn Kronander, President, ph + 46 13-23 52 27, to-kro@sectra.se Sectra AB, Jan-Olof Brüer, President and CEO, ph + 46 13-23 52 09, job@sectra.se Welcome to visit our website: http://www.sectra.se Sectra's operations Since the mid-1980s, Sectra has successfully conducted development and sales of high-technology medical IT and telecommunications products. Today, the business includes products in medical imaging systems, secure communication systems and wireless information systems. The medical image business of Sectra in US is conducted in Sectra Inc AB, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sectra Imtec AB. Internationally Sectra PACS is marketed and sold through different partners. Among these Philips Medical System is the largest. In cooperation with Philips Medical Systems, Sectra has provided PACS to e.g. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Riverside County Regional Medical Center, Klinikum Deggendorf in Germany and Carolus den Bosch Hospital in the Netherlands. Sectra is located in Mjärdevi Science Park in Linköping, Sweden, and evolved from research done at Linköping University. Business is conducted in five countries with a total of 165 employees. Sales for the fiscal year May 1998-April 1999 reached SEK 183 million. Since March 1999, Sectra's shares have been quoted on the O list of the OM Stockholm Exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/05/23/20000523BIT00650/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/05/23/20000523BIT00650/bit0002.pdf