University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio Signs Multi-Year PACS Agreement with Sectra

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“We have leveraged the Sectra PACS platform for over five years, and we are excited about working closely with Sectra going forward as we continue to deliver a broad offering of healthcare services to the Northeastern Ohio region.”

University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio has selected the IT and medical-technology company Sectra (STO:SECTB) as their PACS provider. University Hospitals has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 10 hospital system in the U.S., and by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s best hospitals.

Over the course of the five-year agreement, Sectra will deliver PACS products and direct service and support to University Hospitals in Cleveland, one of the largest healthcare providers and private employers in Northeast Ohio. University Hospitals will leverage Sectra’s new generation PACS with RapidConnect to provide radiology services across a large, distributed group of hospitals and outpatient health and surgery centers.

“At University Hospitals, a big part of our ability to deliver excellent radiology services and patient care is dependent upon our commitment to technology,” said Himanshu Pandya, Vice President of System Radiology at University Hospitals. “We have leveraged the Sectra PACS platform for over five years, and we are excited about working closely with Sectra going forward as we continue to deliver a broad offering of healthcare services to the Northeastern Ohio region.”

“As one of the largest and most progressive healthcare systems in the U.S., University Hospitals in Cleveland is a leader in the delivery of efficient, patient-centric healthcare,” indicated Tom Giordano, President of Sectra North America. “With our new generation PACS, focusing on customer productivity and wide-area radiology, Sectra is well-positioned to meet their demands today and well into the future.”

About University Hospitals
University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians. At the core of our health system is University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and research centers of excellence in the nation and the world, including cancer, pediatrics, women's health, orthopedics and spine, radiology and radiation oncology, neurosurgery and neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. Its main campus includes the internationally celebrated UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, ranked second in the nation for the care of critically ill newborns; UH MacDonald Women's Hospital, Ohio's only hospital for women; and UH Ireland Cancer Center, part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more information, go to www.uhhospitals.org

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.

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