Sectra awarded Swedish IT contract

AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Jun 1, 2008

Swedish PACS vendor and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping has received an order to install its IT infrastructure for information exchange among hospitals for the Swedish county council Region Skåne.

The infrastructure will support the automatic sharing and distribution of radiology information to all departments among Region Skåne's 10 hospitals, which collectively perform more than 900,000 radiology examinations annually.

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