Sectra PACSClinical EditionTM

Sectra PACS More than 700 installations worldwide Over 35 million radiology exams per year

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Pioneers in digital radiology

Industry-leading healthcare solutions

The world’s first film-free PACS solution, Sectra PACS, was initially installed in 1994. Today, hundredsof radiology departments aroundthe world use Sectra PACS on adaily basis. Sectra PACS furnishes a robust, reliable, film-free system to help address the healthcare industry’s most pressing challenges.

Proven, long-term industry experience

Sectra, based in Sweden, is one of the world’s leading providers of PACS solutions. The company evolved from research by scientists at Sweden’s Linköping Institute of Technology. In addition to furnish-ing medical IT, Sectra is also active in the areas of secure communication systems. The company takes pride in:

• Involving users in the development process and encouraging ongoing communication with Sectra engi-neers

• Offering continual training

• Advancing cutting-edge technology

Worldwide support to maximize your investment

Sectra delivers industry-leading support whenever and wherever you need it. From installation and training through ongoing management, our proactive and pre-emptive services ensure your needs are met—24x7. We help you to derive maximum benefit from your investment.

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Ever-expanding healthcare challenges

Sectra PACS promises to increase your productivity and enable cost savings. To meet the ever-growing demands of the healthcare busi-ness, you need to offer the best possible service to your customers –the referring clinicians– and to the patients. Sectra PACS gives you the competitive edge needed to excel in an increasingly competitive environ-ment.

Sectra PACS Clinical EditionExtending imaging efficiencies

Today, healthcare providers are facing a number of critical issues, including:

• A global shortage of radiologists, who often must waste valuable time traveling to geographically dis-persed imaging clinics to retrieve films and other radiology informa-tion

• Heightened radiology service expectations by clinicians and other referring colleagues, who need fast, secure and efficient access to web-based medical histories and radi-ology examinations

• Increasing amounts of clinical data, corresponding to an explosion in the number of images generated by enhanced technology such as CT and MRI scanners:

- Increased film-printing costs

- Greater difficulties in reading large numbers of images on film

- Inadequate display of images due to limited physical space on light boxes

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Achieving more with less

To meet these ever-growinghealthcare demands, Sectra PACS Clinical Edition offers radiologistsa true high-availability solution promising fast and secure desktop access to the tools they need,while clinicians easily can retrieve images and reports. In turn, these professionals can do their work productively, cost-effectively and securely, without compromising diagnostic quality or patientintegrity. Every link in the radiol-ogy chain is covered, from advanced DICOM support to a web-basedsolution for efficient result distribu-tion.

A turnkey solution — allowing faster ROI

Sectra PACS Clinical Edition is an easy-to-install turnkey Windows-based solution for radiologydepartments and imaging centers. Based as it is on Sectra’s extensive experience from high performing hospitals, the system provides all the tools you need to do your work efficiently. Sectra PACS will help increase productivity, lower costs and enhance customer satisfaction – all at the same time.

Offering functionality similar to thatof the full-scale Sectra PACS Enterprise Edition, the Clinical Editionsolution can help your organization:

• Increase productivity

• Achieve a faster and moresubstantial return on investment (ROI)

• Eliminate costs for film and archiving space

• Offer more efficient services toreferring colleagues

• Enhance customer and patientsatisfaction

Giving radiologists the competitive edge

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Moving data instead of people

Reducing the need to physically access film and images, Sectra PACS allows a smaller group of radiologists to cover a wider geographical range of several imaging clinics. Sectra PACS enhances workflow and enables flexible staffing by enabling radiologists to review examina-tion information on their Sectra PACS workstations regardless of location, and regardless of where the examination was performed.

Web-deployable PACS

Sectra PACS is based on a web strategy to meet requirements for a full scale, high performance, web-deployable PACS. It includes such features as zero-client administration allowing upgrades to be performed automatically on workstations without user interaction, and roaming desktops that provide users with the same set of tools regardless of where they log on. These features, com-bined with concurrent user licensing, allow Sectra PACS to be easily deployed throughout the entire enterprise.

Retrieving information — just a click away

Thanks to intuitive, easy-to-usenavigation in the information window, Sectra PACS lets radiologists simulta-neously review both images and RIS information from the same patient. This eliminates the need to switch back and forth between different views on the monitor.

Enhancing radiologists’ proficiencies

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Reducing costs with a film-free solution

With film and archiving space at a premium, many healthcare providers must find a way to enhance workplace efficiency without spending money need-lessly. Because it is a totally digital thus film-free system, Sectra PACS makes it possible to eliminate costs associated with printing, storing and archiving film. Sectra PACS will help you save time, allowing you to perform more examina-tions without increasing resources.

Meeting referring colleagues’ needs

With Sectra PACS, radiologists and their referring colleagues can review images and information anytime, anywhere — regardless of location— quickly, easily and securely. This flexible reviewing functionality enhances radiologists’ efficiencies and saves time, which in turn helps ensure fast, effec-tive responses and better service for your customer’s customer: the patient.

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Sectra PACS Clinical Edition can grow to meet the needs of the most complex clinical network, becoming just as extensive as you need it to be.

Your Partner in PACS

Sectra PACS Clinical Editioncan be customized to meet anyimaging center’s clinical andbusiness needs.

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An open, available architecture

Sectra PACS is based on an open architecture that fully supports DICOM, HL7, IHE and HIPAA standards to facilitate integration. Sectra PACS is integrated with vari-ous IT support systems such as RIS and HIS systems, dictation systems, and systems for monitoring and management. The Sectra philosophy is full integration with other systems regardless of vendor. Clinical appli-cations can be seamlessly integrated into your IDS5 workstation, making it the only true multi-modality system in the world. This way, you and your referring colleagues can use all your favorite tools for diagnostic imaging, letting you to get the most out of the workstation.

Meeting regulatory requirements

Sectra PACS is designed to meet thehigh security demands mandated bystringent cost-intensive federal regu-lations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other similar initiatives.

For more information about how Sectra PACS deals with HIPAA issues, please see www.sectra.com/medical or contact info.imtec@sectra.com for the Sectra HIPAA white paper.

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A single platform for all imaging needs

In addition to the need for increased efficiency and quality of patent care, there is increasing demand for complete solutions that integrate all medical special-ties into a single platform.

The open nature of Sectra PACS gives you the freedom to choose between a broad range of functionalities and the possibility to select the application relevant to your particular medical field, including solutions for orthopedics, mammography, cardiology and 3D.

Easy-to-use personalized functionality

Sectra PACS lets radiologists easily

personalize their workstations to accommodate individual preferencesin terms of functionality and appear-ance, further enhancing workflowand efficiencies. For instance, radi-ologists and their referring colleagues can use all of their favorite tools and clinical applications for diagnostic imaging, thus maximizing worksta-tion benefits. Thanks to the open architecture based on the latest tech-nology, Sectra PACS Clinical Edition can integrate with a virtually limitless number of other systems. Radiolo-gists can connect to the network and, when authorized, access any image, at any time — without compromising security or patient integrity.

Meeting clinical and business needs

A future proof solution

Sectra PACS Clinical Edition is a reliable, robust system based on off-the-shelf, non-proprietary components that help ensure a truly future proof PACS solution. In addition, it’s easy to expand Sectra PACS Clinical Edition into a full-scale multi-server high availability Enterprise Edition solution.

Leveraging existing knowledge

Both the Sectra PACS ClinicalEdition and Sectra PACSEnterprise Edition comprise the same workstation family — thus providing comparable functionality with an identical user interface and eliminating the need to learn new skills. Since these systems are based on the same workstations and the same workflow manager, users can upgrade easily by installing and then connecting new hardware.

About Sectra

Sectra is one of the world’s leading

providers of PACS, mammography and

orthopedic solutions. The first Sectra

PACS was installed in 1994 and hun-

dreds of radiology departments all over

the world are now using Sectra PACS

daily. Sectra products are marketed and

sold worldwide through partners. Sectra

takes pride in involving users in the devel-

opment process. User groups, continual

training, and personal contact between

users and Sectra engineers ensure that

Sectra PACS helps solve the problems

health care providers face today.

Sectra was founded in 1978. The com-

pany evolved from research performed

by scientists at the Linköping Institute

of Technology. In addition to medical IT,

Sectra also conducts business in the

areas of secure communication systems.

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• Enhances productivity, improves efficiency and increases patient throughput by providing instant access to images and radiology information.

• Utilizes an intuitive, Windows-based user interface consistent across all PACS-connected work-stations to eliminate extra training and provide immediate benefits from the first day of use.

• Facilitates flexible staffing of radiology clinics by offering cross-facility and cross-platform worklists with desktop access to diagnostic images and information—from inside or outside the enterprise.

• Expands easily and seamlessly to meet full-scale enterprise-wide requirements with consistent functionality, while eliminating costly, time-consuming user training and downtime.

• Offers a quick return on investment with cost-effective off-the-shelf technology that reduces acquisition and service costs.

Features & Benefits

Features that offer a host of benefits

World HeadquartersSectra Imtec ABTeknikringen 20SE-583 30 Linköping, SwedenPhone: +46 13 23 52 00 Fax: +46 13 21 21 85E-mail: info.imtec@sectra.se

North American HeadquartersSectra North America Inc.2 Enterprise Dr.Suite 507Shelton, CT 06484, USAPhone: +1 203 925 0899Fax: +1 203 925 0906E-mail: info@sectra.com

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