LINKOPING, Sweden, Feb. 26, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra, widens its Clinical Solutions Network by signing an co-operation agreement with International Medical Multimedia, Ltd. (IMM), a software development company based in United Kingdom.
IMM develops and markets AiMS, image management software that enables radiologists to create and customize their image archives for clinical reference, teaching and presentation purposes. AiMS is a suite of software tools to interrogate and manage image repositories. The user has the possibility to build and manage their own databases and/or to use the suite of databases created by IMM and recognized professional bodies, providing an unrivalled repository of radiology cases.
As a result of the agreement it will be possible to work with AiMS seamlessly integrated in the Sectra's workstation for digital radiology. AiMS is one of several special partner applications that Sectra will present at the annual European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, March 1-5 2002.
"With the Sectra Clinical Solutions Network, we aim at maximizing the benefits that users derive from our PACS connected workstations by being able to offer a broad range of highly specialized clinical applications that can be seamlessly integrated into our workstations", says Torbjorn Kronander, President of Sectra Imtec AB.
"The agreement with Sectra confirms the value of AiMS as a tool to manage repositories and use cases for reference, teaching, presentation and distribution purposes, which users can now run from within their PACS application," said Per-Egil Hansen, President of International Medical Multimedia, Ltd. "The co-operation with a leading PACS vendor like Sectra will allow a large number of existing and future PACS users to easily add our AiMS software to complement the functionality of their PACS," Per-Egil Hansen concluded
About Sectra Clinical Solutions Network
The Clinical Solutions Network (CSN) is the unifying concept of Sectra's co-operation with third party vendors connected to the Sectra software products in the medical field. Sectra provides open software products for radiology applications with interfaces that third party actors easily can integrate to. The CSN invites both commercial and researching actors to develop new functionality connected to the Sectra software solutions.
About IMM
IMM's main product, AiMS (Advanced image Management System), is a modular software application built on text-based database technology, that enables specialists to create and manage their own or institutional repositories with images and text seamlessly integrated, search and retrieve cases on medical content, apply incorporated teaching tools for their teaching and education and use cases for e.g. presentations or multi-disciplinary consultation. To date IMM is the only vendor to offer such a solution and has more than 70 installations worldwide and has offices in Abingdon (UK) and Fort Lauderdale (USA). For more information about IMM see, www.immeurope.com or www.imm-us.com .
About Sectra Imtec
Sectra is one of today's major PACS providers with more than 200 PACS installations worldwide. The Swedish based company operates through partners in most of the world, but delivers directly to end customers in Northern Europe. The core business is to deliver top-of-the-line high-availability, robust enterprise PACS for 24/7 operation. In Sweden, which is currently the country with the largest penetration of PACS in the world, Sectra holds a dominant market leadership with more than 60% of all film free installations. The company has its largest number of installed systems in Sweden and in the U.S. (through partners), but has also an installed base in Germany, Norway, Finland, U.K., Italy, Spain, The Netherlands and the Far East.
Sectra's operations
Sectra has its roots in Linkoping Technical University and is one of Sweden's fastest growing high-tech companies in the IT area. 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 systems, secure communication systems and wireless information systems.
Sectra's medical business is conducted in Sectra Imtec AB, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sectra AB. Internationally, Sectra PACS is marketed and sold through different partners.
Business is conducted in six countries with a total of 218 employees. Sales for the fiscal year May 2000-April 2001 reached SEK 292 million. Since March 1999, Sectra's shares have been quoted on the O list of the Stockholm Exchange.
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