Sectra and Major Private Care Provider Extend Cooperation with a New Contract for Two Countries

Sectra (STO: SECTB) has signed a new six-year contract with Unilabs, a leading care provider for radiology and laboratory medicine in the Nordic region. The contract comprises Sectra’s IT-solution for the handling and storage of radiology images and patient information (PACS and RIS) for Unilabs’ Swedish and Norwegian businesses. Sectra’s IT solution enhances accessability and simplifies communication of medical images in and between hospitals, thus facilitating radiologists’ everyday work and contributing to better and more efficient care. The order value amounts to approximately EUR 6.5 million.

Unilabs already uses Sectra’s IT solution for its entire Swedish business. The company has now chosen to renew its Swedish contract and to expand it to include the business in Norway.

"We take care of a large number of patients within our operations, which places demands on safe, stable and easy-to-use systems,” says Jan Hörnström, Business Area Manager for Unilabs Radiology. "With Sectra, we can maintain the high quality of our services and meet our customers’ expectations.”

Focus on cancer care

Most patients undergo a radiological examination as part of the diagnosis and treatment of their illness or injury. This means that the possibility of handling radiology images simply and efficiently, and communicating these to personnel in other care units, is of major importance for the quality of the care provided to the patients.

To enable health care providers to give better, faster and more patient-centered care, Sectra offers systems and services for comprehensive handling and storage of all types of medical images, primarily for large image diagnostics units, such as radiology, mammography and pathology, but also in other departments where medical imaging material is used. Medical images for cancer diagnostics run as a common thread through Sectra’s offering.

About Unilabs

Unilabs aspires to be at the heart and start of all effective treatment decisions. With over 125 laboratories and a broad catalogue of more than 2,500 diagnostic tests, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading providers of clinical laboratory testing and medical diagnostic imaging services.

Unilabs Group employs more than 5,000 people worldwide, successfully operating laboratory and medical diagnostic imaging facilities in 12 countries. The Unilabs Group services sectors ranging from private and public healthcare providers to local governments, from pharmaceutical companies to the general public.

About the Sectra Group

Sectra was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. The company’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical IT and secure communications. Sectra has subsidiaries in 14 countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2014/2015 fiscal year totaled SEK 961 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com (http://www.sectra.com/) (http://www.sectra.com/) (http://www.sectra.com/)

In the medical market, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology and other image-intensive departments, orthopaedics and rheumatology. More than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.

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