LINKOPING, Sweden, June 14, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Today at 11:00 CET, the new Breast Disease Center at Helsingborg Hospital is officially opened. The center is the first in the world to use Sectra mammography PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) for reviewing their digital mammography images, and is now in full film free operation.
Carin Wredstrom, Chairman of the municipal executive committee, will conduct the opening ceremony of the Breast Disease Center.
"With the new Center we will be able to give better service to women with suspected breast cancer, and Sectra's PACS is one of the corner stones for making this possible," said Dr Stefan Sallerfors, CEO of Helsingborg Hospital. "With Sectra's system we can reduce the time to documented diagnosis. This is of course of great benefit to the patient, since faster diagnosis means less time for the patient to wait for the result and possible treatment.
In February 2002, Sectra was entrusted with the first order for the company's digital mammography system by Helsingborg Hospital. Today the mammography department of Helsingborg Hospital is in full digital production using Sectra's systems for handling X-ray images; PACS, and for handling administrative patient information; RIS. Both systems are adapted to suit population based mammography screening. Final delivery of Sectra MicroDose MammographyTM is expected to take place during the fall, and with this, the women of Helsingborg will receive the world's lowest levels of radiation in conjunction with mammography examinations.
About Sectra Imtec
Sectra is one of today's major PACS providers with more than 250 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 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.
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Sectra AB, Jan-Olof Bruer, President and CEO, +46 13 23 52 09, job@sectra.se
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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. Sectra MicroDose Mammography(tm) is developed in partnership with Mamea Imaging AB.
Business is conducted in six countries with a total of 250 employees. Sales for the fiscal year May 2001-April 2002 reached SEK 426 million. Since March 1999, Sectra's shares have been quoted on the O list of the Stockholm Exchange.
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