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October 19, 2011 — At RSNA 2011, Sectra will launch its OneScreen system, an online solution to identify patients in the risk group for osteoporosis. The service is especially convenient in combination with mammography.
At RSNA 2011, Sectra will highlight its Breast Imaging PACS, which offers tools to streamline mammography workflows within high-volume screening and advanced diagnostic mammography. Launched at RSNA is the possibility to read breast tomosynthesis images in Sectra Breast Imaging PACS.
July 22, 2011 — peerVue has been selected to provide comprehensive teaching file capabilities for Sectra’s groundbreaking NIPACS nationwide medical image management and communication solution in Northern Ireland. Seamlessly integrated with Sectra’s radiology information systems/picture archive and communications systems (RIS/PACS) technology, which shares imaging information across organizational and regional boundaries, peerVue’s innovative qualitative intelligence and communications system (QICS) will enable users to author and publish cases from the NIPACS archive to system-wide teaching file worklists. Using these worklists, physicians throughout the country will be able to share and learn from important radiology cases treated at any public health facility in Northern Ireland, creating an innovative national physician education network.
July 5, 2011 –Sectra announced an agreement with its distribution partner Electromek Diagnostic Systems to expand the sales coverage area for RIS/PACS solutions into two states: Missouri and Illinois, excluding the metropolitan areas of Kansas City and Chicago, which Sectra covers with a direct sales staff.
June 28, 2011 — Sectra and Philips Healthcare have signed an agreement under which Philips will acquire Sectra’s mammography modality operations for approximately $80 million. Through this deal Sectra’s Medical Systems business will focus on medical imaging information technology (IT).
June 23, 2011 — Swedish information technology and medical technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with McBrothers, a leading medical technology company based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
May 24, 2011 – New features have been introduced to a Web-based radiology information system (RIS).
May 5, 2011 – Women in the United States may now undergo mammography with a significantly lower radiation dose, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the Sectra MicroDose Mammography system. The system uses photon-counting technology to reduce the radiation dose by half of that used by other digital or film-based systems.
May 5, 2011 – Women in the United States may now undergo mammography with a significantly lower radiation dose, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the Sectra MicroDose Mammography system. The system uses photon-counting technology to reduce the radiation dose by half of that used by other digital or film-based systems.
April 22, 2011 – Healthcare providers in Russia can now offer women mammography with the market’s lowest radiation dose. This opportunity is a result of the Russian authorities’ approval of Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography.