LINKOPING, Sweden, Feb. 13, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra has received an order from the Arendal Hospital in Norway for digital radiology systems. The order includes Sectra's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and amounts to approximately USD 500,000.
The radiology department at Arendal hospital performs approximately 60.000 examinations annualy. Installations of Sectra's PACS will begin in the autum 2002.
"We carried out a careful evaluation of all available PACS, and choose Sectra because it proved to the best system on the market", says Thor Usterud, project manager at Arendal Hospital.
The digitization will allow all images and radiology-related patient data to be accessed throughout all clinics of the hospital simultaneousely. By using a high security level built-in in the system, this is done without compromising patient integrity.
"This is the fourth order to a Norwegian hospital that Sectra receives within a short period of time which is very encouraging for us and proofs that our system is state of the art second to none in the world," says Age Sjafjell, President of Sectra Norway.
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 the Nordic region, which currently has the largest penetration of PACS in the world, Sectra holds a dominant market leadership. The company has its largest number of installed systems in Sweden and the US (through partners), but has also an installed base in Germany, Norway, Finland, UK, 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. In Norway the medical business is conducted in the wholly-owned subsidiary Sectra Norway AS.
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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