LINKOPING, Sweden, Feb. 6, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Swedish medical technology and IT company Sectra has signed an agreement with MD OnLine (MDOL), an industry leader in computer-aided diagnostic support software, for the integration of MDOL's ImageMatch technology in Sectra's digital radiology systems.
Through the agreement, MDOL's software ImageMatch is seamlessly integrated into Sectra's system for handling digital radiology images, which enhances and facilitates the workflow of radiologists.
"With these kinds of co-operations we increase the number of applications available to our customers," says Jakob Algulin, manager for Sectra's Clinical Solutions Program. "By letting third party companies provide their expertise and products on our platform, we create the most open solution on the market. All with the aim of maximizing the benefit that our customers get from our workstation in handling digital radiology images."
MDOL's ImageMatch service allows physicians to quickly match their patient cases to ones with similar pathology in the MDOL database. Within seconds, the graphic-based ImageMatch search engine interrogates the MDOL database over the Internet and presents images with like pathology prioritized according to the closest match to the query image.
"The co-operation with Sectra will increase MDOL's availability in European and global markets and offer users of Sectra's workstation the opportunity to increase their diagnostic confidence by quickly accessing relevant clinical information," says Victor Ruiz, MDOL's chief operating officer.
About the 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 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 the US (through partners), but has also an installed base in Germany, Norway, Finland, UK, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands and the Far East.
About MD OnLine
MDOL is a healthcare information software and services company specializing in the development of Computer Aided Diagnostic-Support applications based in the United States. Its mission is to provide additional diagnostic confidence to physicians, healthcare professionals, patients and other interested parties who would otherwise not have access to comparative consultation. To achieve this mission, the Company has combined sophisticated graphics-based image-matching algorithms with a vast clinically validated database of diagnostic information. MDOL compares a submitted DICOM-formatted image (MR or CT) with millions compiled from preeminent medical institutions and leading radiologists from around the world, and within seconds presents the user with the best clinical matches, complete with patient information and differential diagnoses. To date, ImageMatch subscribers span over 10 countries worldwide.
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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