Sectra widens its product offering through new partnership:Sectra and Research Systems sign clinical solutions agreement
11/21/2001 7:52 AM EST
Sectra widens its product offering through new partnership
Sectra and Research Systems sign clinical solutions agreement
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra has signed a
clinical solutions agreement with the US-based company Research Systems
regarding the integration of Watsyn. Watsyn provides rapid application
development capabilities for Sectra's system for digital radiology.
In order to further increase customer's benefit Sectra is working with
open systems that give other suppliers the opportunity to integrate
special clinical applications with Sectra's PACS workstations. Through
co-operations like this, Sectra strives to make a broader range of
clinical applications available for its worldwide PACS customers.
Research Systems' product, Watsyn, enables developers to rapidly design
and integrate medical imaging applications with a very high degree of
flexibility. Through the clinical solutions agreement between Sectra and
Research Systems any application written using the Watsyn implementation
platform software will run as a plug-in from the Sectra PACS workstation
without any additional coding.
"Research Systems has thousands of IDL users in the medical industry.
This relationship with Sectra will allow IDL users the ability to
integrate their applications through Watsyn onto a Sectra PACS
workstation", says Lawrence White, Director of Product Marketing at
Research Systems.
"This co-operation with Research Systems will give our customers access
to a vast portfolio of new clinical applications developed on the Watsyn
implementation platform", says Staffan Bergström, VP Marketing at Sectra
Imtec AB. "As the Sectra Clinical Application Interface protects the
clinical data from unauthorized access or distortion, the combination of
Watsyn and the Sectra PACS workstation is also a very powerful tool for
researchers. Researchers may write their applications in Watsyn and
immediately run them on the Sectra PACS workstation using live clinical
data. We expect to see a vast number of applications available on our
workstation in the near future thanks to this co-operation."
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.
For further information, please
contact:
Sectra Imtec AB, Dr. Torbjörn
Kronander, President,
+46 705 23 52 27,
or
Sectra AB, Dr. Jan-Olof Brüer,
President and CEO,
+46 13 23 52 09,
Visit our website
http://www.sectra.com
Sectra's operations
Sectra has its roots in Linköping 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 195 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
OM Stockholm Exchange.
About Research Systems, Inc.
Research Systems Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak
Company and supports more than 200,000 worldwide users of its image and
data analysis, visualization and application development software
products. These products allow business to develop, deploy and manage
imaging applications and are designed to increase developer productivity
and reduce time to market for software projects. The company's primary
markets include medical, remote sensing, defense, oil & gas,
engineering, automotive and aerospace. Additional information can be
found at www.researchsystems.com.