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October 21, 2010 – For the first time, a hospital in the United Kingdom will offer women osteoporosis detection and mammography in a single exam. Sectra reached an agreement with Aspen Healthcare to use Sectra’s screening tools at the Holly House Hospital.
The initiative could also drastically reduce care costs, since fractures caused by osteoporosis will decline.
September 20, 2010 — Demand increased substantially in the May-July 2010 period for mammography products produced by Sectra. The number of its MicroDose mammography system deliveries more than doubled to 21, up from 10, and contributed to the quarter’s sales growth.
August 30, 2010 - A private mammography clinic in Germany launched the first German mobile screening unit. By offering mobile screening, , Gemeinschaftspraxis für Diagnostische Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin can improve its participation rates as women need to spend less time and cost in transit when attending their screening examinations.
August 12, 2010 - A Swedish IT and medical technology company has been awarded a contract to install four mammography units for use in the Australian state of Victoria.
BreastScreen Victoria offers a free mammographic screening service to asymptomatic women in the target group of 50-69 years of age under the state population based screening program.
June 17, 2010 – The Swedish company Sectra has been awarded a contract to install a dedicated Breast Imaging PACS and three MicroDose Mammography units for use in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
May 27, 2010 - Finding ways to streamline the radiologists' workflow is critical today as reimbursement cuts for imaging studies force radiologists to read a greater number of exams.
April 26, 2010 - As magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology is an effective diagnostic tools for cases involving tumors, aneurysms, examining the condition of organs as the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, and in different soft tissue.
March 30, 2010 - “Two crucial challenges for the future of radiology are the ever-growing size of imaging data sets and the increased needs for sharing and remote reading," said Dr. Claes Lundström, director of radiology IT solutions at Sectra.
January 12, 2010 - University Hospitals in Ohio serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians, including its primary affiliate, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Sectra featured at RSNA 2009 its latest release of Sectra PACS with RapidConnect technology. The focus of the next-generation Sectra PACS is on providing a performance solution for wide-area radiology, enabling efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for very large image stacks over strained networks.