Sectra awarded major breast imaging PACS contract for Queensland Health, Australia
Sectra has signed an agreement with Queensland Health’s BreastScreen Queensland Program for the provision of a statewide PACS solution to significantly improve the efficiency of mammography screening services. The multi-year contract has an order value of approximately AUD 9 million (approximately SEK 60 million).
The breast cancer screening program in Queensland will link BreastScreen Screening and Assessment Services and a number of satellite and mobile services to a central hub in Brisbane. This dedicated mammography screening network will cover all of metropolitan and rural and remote Queensland. The PACS solution will allow fast and highly efficient reading of screening mammograms within the network. BreastScreen Queensland plans to screen 235,000 women this year and the Sectra solution purchased allows for future population growth.
The statewide PACS solution for BreastScreen Queensland will complete the transition to digital technology for the screening program. This will provide significant benefits especially for women living in rural and remote areas of a vast, decentralized state where communications can be a challenge. BreastScreen Queensland provides its services through 11 fixed-location and 19 satellite or screening-only facilities, six mobile units and two relocatables at more than 200 locations. Images can now be viewed via tele-radiology from up to thousands of kilometers away, with higher quality, and follow-up assessment for women will be much quicker. BreastScreen Queensland expects to manage more than 6.5 million digital images captured at its facilities over the next five years.
“The awarding of this important contract by Queensland Health positions Sectra as the leading provider of breast imaging PACS in all of the Eastern States of Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. These partnerships confirm the direction and value of Sectra products and research in the highly specialized field of mammography,” says Scott Johnston, Managing Director of Sectra Pty Ltd.
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.
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