Swedish hospital uses tomorrow€s advanced X-ray system today

5/21/1999 4:43 AM EST

Swedish hospital uses tomorrow's advanced X-ray system today

At Visby Hospital, on Gotland, Sweden, the Swedish company Sectra is expanding
and upgrading a digital image management system, that is, a film-free X-ray
department. Deployment of the upgrade and expansion is the first stage of a
four-year contract for digital radiology (PACS). The total value of the order
is about SEK 11 million.

"There's no doubt that we made the right move when we gave up X-ray film in
1994/95 in favor of computer technology. Despite fewer staff and expanded
activity in the form of new diagnostic methods, such as computed tomography
and magnetic resonance tomography, we have no waiting time," says Mats-Ola

Rödén, previously project manager and head of planning at Visby Hospital.
"The expansion just deployed will allow us to continue on the course we have
set by further enhancing service and efficiency."

"With this upgrade, we are changing to Windows NT clients and expanding our
archive capacity as well as raising the level of service to our clients,"
says Dr. Staffan Jennerholm, head physician at Visby's X-ray department. "A
larger number of sophisticated workstations for image review are being set-up
in departments where there is a great need to access X-ray images. Other units
referring patients gain access to the X-ray images via an intranet bridge
connected to the system. The end result is more efficient and better patient
care."


For further information, please
contact:

Sectra Imtec AB, Dr Torbjörn Kronander
Managing Director,
+46 13-23 52 27,  
Or

Sectra Imtec AB, Staffan Bergström
Marketing Manager,

+46 13-23 52 12,  
Welcome to visit our website
http://www.sectra.se


Sectra's operations

Sectra AB is an IT company that grew out of research at the Linköping
Institute of Technology. Since the mid-1980s, the Company has successfully
conducted development and sales of high technology IT and telecommunications
products. Today, the business includes products in the expanding fields of
medical image systems, defense communication systems and digital radio
systems. Sectra collaborates with customers in each of these markets to
develop commercially robust, user-friendly products embodying high technical
quality. Sectra is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange's O-list since March
3, 1999

The medical image business of Sectra 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. Among these Philips Medical
System is the largest. In cooperation with Philips Medical Systems, Sectra has
provided PACS to e.g. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Riverside County

Regional Medical Center, Klinikum Deggendorf in Germany and Carolus den Bosch
Hospital in the Netherlands.