Sectra awarded major breast imaging PACS contract for Queensland Health, Australia

Sectra awarded major breast imaging PACS contract for Queensland Health,
Australia

Sectra has signed an agreement with Queensland Health's BreastScreen
Queensland Program for the provision of a statewide PACS solution to
significantly improve the efficiency of mammography screening services. 
The multi-year contract has an order value of approximately AUD 9
million (approximately SEK 60 million).

The breast cancer screening program in Queensland will link BreastScreen
Screening and Assessment Services and a number of satellite and mobile
services to a central hub in Brisbane. This dedicated mammography
screening network will cover all of metropolitan and rural and remote
Queensland.  The PACS solution will allow fast and highly efficient
reading of screening mammograms within the network.  BreastScreen
Queensland plans to screen 235,000 women this year and the Sectra
solution purchased allows for future population growth.

The statewide PACS solution for BreastScreen Queensland will complete
the transition to digital technology for the screening program.  This
will provide significant benefits especially for women living in rural
and remote areas of a vast, decentralized state where communications can
be a challenge. BreastScreen Queensland provides its services through 11
fixed-location and 19 satellite or screening-only facilities, six mobile
units and two relocatables at more than 200 locations. Images can now be
viewed via tele-radiology from up to thousands of kilometers away, with
higher quality, and follow-up assessment for women will be much quicker.
BreastScreen Queensland expects to manage more than 6.5 million digital
images captured at its facilities over the next five years.

“The awarding of this important contract by Queensland Health positions
Sectra as the leading provider of breast imaging PACS in all of the
Eastern States of Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital
Territory.  These partnerships confirm the direction and value of Sectra
products and research in the highly specialized field of mammography,”
says Scott Johnston, Managing Director of Sectra Pty Ltd.

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