Sectra signs multi-year PACS agreement with leading US healthcare provider
Wooster Community Hospital of Wooster, Ohio, has selected the IT and medical-technology company Sectra as their PACS provider.
Through the five year agreement Sectra will supply PACS products and direct service and support to Wooster Community Hospital, a 150 bed full-service acute care hospital offering a complete range of inpatient and outpatient services across multiple facilities. Wooster Community Hospital has been named a Thompson Reuters Top 100 Hospital for the 2nd year in a row.
“Wooster Community Hospital operates on the principal of delivering convenient, quality healthcare services to all people in an efficient and responsive manner,” says Dave Harrison, Director of Radiology at Wooster Community Hospital. “We needed a unified PACS platform that would evolve to meet the growing demands of our environment; delivering images via the hospitals network, and more importantly through the web. WCH strongly believes that Sectra will enhance that evolution as we move to the future with our patients and physicians.”
“Wooster Community Hospital is representative of many leading healthcare institutions in the U.S. today, says Dr. John Goble,” President of Sectra in North America. “While the current environment has created additional financial and social pressures, the need to deliver high quality efficient healthcare to an expanding patient population is more pressing than ever.
About Wooster Community Hospital
Wooster Community Hospital has more than 650 full time employees and there are more than 100 physicians on the active medical staff, covering most medical specialties.
Wooster Community Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is one of the lowest cost hospital providers in the State of Ohio, and has recently been recognized for quality care by local insurers and the 'Consumers Guide to Healthcare'. The hospital has served Wooster and its surrounding service area for more than fifty years, and it is currently in the process of a multi-million dollar expansion project - its fourth such project in the last eight years. Wooster Community Hospital offers state of the art healthcare services in a friendly patient-centered community hospital setting.
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 1,000 hospitals worldwide use the system daily, together performing over 50 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 2008/2009 fiscal year totaled SEK 863 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com.
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