Norwegian physicians to benefit from region-wide sharing solution from Sectra
IT and medical imaging company Sectra has signed an agreement with a public Norwegian hospital chain under which Sectra will implement a central sharing solution for all radiology images produced in the most densely populated Norwegian healthcare region.
The hospital chain provides professional care for a region with a population of 1.5 million Norwegians and comprises four hospitals together performing 700,000 radiology examinations annually. Under this agreement, Sectra will connect the image management systems from three different vendors that are in use at the hospitals’ radiology departments.
The solution will be tightly integrated to the enterprise-wide Electronic Patient Record. Accordingly, the referring clinician will be able to access both the radiology report and relevant images regardless of the hospital site in the enterprise that performed the radiology examination. This will support a unified, patient-centric workflow covering the entire healthcare chain and increase collaboration between radiology and referring medical disciplines.
“This order demonstrates our ability to meet the growing demand for solutions that enable efficient sharing of information and images independent of the image management system used,” says Torbjörn Kronander, President of Sectra Imtec AB. “Providing radiology images to referring clinicians across the region regardless of where the images were taken is an important step toward improved patient care”.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President, Sectra Imtec AB, +46 705 23 52 27
Dr. Jan-Olof Brüer, CEO and President, Sectra AB, +46 13 23 52 09
About Sectra’s medical operations
Sectra develops and sells IT-systems and products for radiology, mammography and orthopaedic departments. More than 1,100 hospitals worldwide use the system daily, together performing over 52 million radiology examinations annually. This makes Sectra one of the world leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images (PACS). In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Outside Scandinavia, Sectra’s system is installed at customers in North America and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
About the Sectra Group
Sectra successfully develops and sells cutting-edge products in the expansive niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. The company was founded in 1978 and has its roots in the Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden. Today, Sectra has offices in twelve countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2009/2010 fiscal year totaled SEK 848 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com.