Healthcare Industry News: digital mammography
News Release - November 27, 2009
Sectra Signs Partnership Agreement with Leading Spanish Medical Distributor
STOCKHOLM--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Sectra (STO:SECTB) has signed a partnership agreement with the Spanish company Fundación García Muñoz S.L. Founded in 1920, Fundación García Muñoz is a leading supplier of medical equipment and has an extensive customer base in both the private and public healthcare sectors in Spain.Through this partnership, Fundación García Muñoz has become a distributor of complete system for digital mammography including Sectra MicroDose Mammography and breast imaging PACS (system for handling digital radiology images).
“Fundación García Muñoz is a highly reputed company, and this partnership significantly strengthens Sectra’s sales force in the large Spanish healthcare market,” says Jesper Söderqvist, President of Sectra’s mammography operations.
“Spain has a national screening program and the demand for efficient digital mammography systems is growing,” says Francisco García Montagud, Managing Director of Fundación García Muñoz. “With Sectra MicroDose Mammography, we can offer a unique high-volume screening solution with less than 50% of the dose level of other systems in the market without any compromise in image quality.”
About Sectra’s medical operations
Sectra develops and sells IT-systems and products for radiology, mammography and orthopaedic departments. More than 1,000 hospitals worldwide use the system daily, together performing over 50 million radiology examinations annually. This makes Sectra one of the world leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images (PACS). In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Outside Scandinavia, Sectra’s system is installed at customers in North America and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
About the Sectra Group
Sectra successfully develops and sells cutting-edge products in the expansive niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. The company was founded in 1978 and has its roots in the Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden. Today, Sectra has offices in twelve countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2008/2009 fiscal year totaled SEK 863 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com.
Source: Sectra
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