Sectra focusing on customer productivity with release of Sectra PACS 12.1

Sectra focusing on customer productivity with release of Sectra PACS 12.1

The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra, announces today the launch
of Sectra PACS release 12.1 with RapidConnect™ technology. The launch marks the
start of the third phase in the rollout of Sectra's new PACS generation. Sectra
is focusing on customer productivity and wide area radiology.

Sectra PACS 12.1 is the third step in the rollout of Sectra's next-generation
PACS with RapidConnect™ technology. The focus of the next-generation Sectra PACS
is on providing a performance solution for wide area radiology - enabling
efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for very large image
stacks over strained networks. 

A core component of Sectra's PACS is RapidConnect™  technology, which leverages
patent pending technology to enable the radiology workflow demanded today by the
world's most advanced radiologists.  By facilitating multi-site workflow and
rapid image and data delivery, Sectra will enable clinicians to efficiently
leverage and share resources across geographic and subspecialty boundaries.  The
list of clinical functionality delivered as part of Sectra's new PACS release is
extensive, including efficient result distribution to referring physicians,
several integrated solutions focusing on performance in large stack reading,
such as integrated 3D and MPR, minimization of operational costs through the
introduction of single point of administration and a full web-based deployment
of the Sectra PACS.

Since the first step in the rollout of the next-generation Sectra PACS a number
of customer sites have been upgraded to take advantage of the solution's
high-performance remote reading based on RapidConnect™ technology. Among the
first customers to implement 12.1 will be the province of Northern Ireland,
performing more than one million examinations per year, which is seeking to
significantly improve throughput and cut response times to referring physicians.

“Sectra PACS 12.1 is the largest investment that we have ever made in Sectra
RIS/PACS and we are now very well-positioned with a future-proof PACS that can
improve our customers' productivity,” says Staffan Bergström, Vice President
Radiology IT at Sectra. “Our focus going forward is clearly on enabling wide
area radiology and delivering complex solutions to demanding customers. Combined
with our experience from 1,000 customer projects, Sectra PACS 12.1 qualifies us
to address this challenge today, and well into the future,” he continues.

For further information, please contact: 
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President, Sectra Imtec AB, +46 705 23 52 27 


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.