Sectra Awarded Major Breast Imaging PACS Contract

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, decentralised 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 kilometres 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 specialised field of mammography,” says Scott Johnston, Managing Director of Sectra Pty Ltd.

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