University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio signs multi-year PACS agreement with Sectra

University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio signs multi-year PACS agreement with
Sectra  

University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio has selected the IT and
medical-technology company Sectra as their PACS provider. University Hospitals
has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 10 hospital system in the U.S.,
and by U.S. News and World Report as one of America's best hospitals.  

Over the course of the five-year agreement, Sectra will deliver PACS products
and direct service and support to University Hospitals in Cleveland, one of the
largest healthcare providers and private employers in Northeast Ohio. University
Hospitals will leverage Sectra's new generation PACS with RapidConnect to
provide radiology services across a large, distributed group of hospitals and
outpatient health and surgery centers.  

“At University Hospitals, a big part of our ability to deliver excellent
radiology services and patient care is dependent upon our commitment to
technology,” said Himanshu Pandya, Vice President of System Radiology at
University Hospitals. “We have leveraged the Sectra PACS platform for over five
years, and we are excited about working closely with Sectra going forward as we
continue to deliver a broad offering of healthcare services to the Northeastern
Ohio region.”

“As one of the largest and most progressive healthcare systems in the U.S.,
University Hospitals in Cleveland is a leader in the delivery of efficient,
patient-centric healthcare,” indicated Tom Giordano, President of Sectra North
America.  “With our new generation PACS, focusing on customer productivity and
wide-area radiology, Sectra is well-positioned to meet their demands today and
well into the future.”
 
About University Hospitals
University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network
of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians.  At the core of
our health system is University Hospitals Case Medical Center.  The primary
affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University
Hospitals Case Medical Center is home to some of the most prestigious clinical
and research centers of excellence in the nation and the world, including
cancer, pediatrics, women's health, orthopedics and spine, radiology and
radiation oncology, neurosurgery and neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular
surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. Its main campus includes the
internationally celebrated UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, ranked
second in the nation for the care of critically ill newborns; UH MacDonald
Women's Hospital, Ohio's only hospital for women; and UH Ireland Cancer Center,
part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more
information, go to www.uhhospitals.org

For further information, please contact: 
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President, Sectra Imtec AB, +46 705 23 52 27 
Dr. Jan-Olof Brüer, CEO and President, Sectra AB, +46 13 23 52 09

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.