2015/2016 Best in KLAS – US Healthcare Providers Rate Sectra the #1 PACS Vendor

For the third consecutive year, IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B) is ranked #1 by its US customers and has been awarded the 2015/2016 Best in KLAS for PACS in the "2015/2016 Best in KLAS: Software and Services” report.

"Sectra has a genuine passion to maintain the highest customer satisfaction and to support our customers in delivering efficient, top quality healthcare. To receive the Best in KLAS award for the third consecutive year makes me incredibly proud,” says Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO of Sectra.

"The best things about having this product are its reliability and Sectra's service. The product hardly ever goes down, and when we reach out to Sectra, they are knowledgeable and get back to us right away. They solve our problems,” comments a Hospital Director, December 2015 on the KLAS website (refer to: http://data.klasresearch.com/products/comments/5261).

Sectra has developed IT solutions for healthcare imaging for more than 20 years. The first Sectra PACS was installed in Sweden in 1978 and today, the software is used by healthcare providers throughout the world managing over 70 million annual radiology examinations.

Read more about:

· Sectra and the awards Best in KLAS for PACS www.sectra.com/klas

· The press release from KLAS www.klasresearch.com/News/PressRoom/

Meet Sectra at HIMSS and ECR

Sectra’s medical IT solutions, including Sectra PACS, will be showcased at the HIMSS and ECR trade shows. To book a meeting, use the following links:

· www.sectra.com/himss

· www.sectra.com/ecr

Press room: www.sectra.com/medical/press

Press images: flickr.com/photos/sectramedicalsystems

About the Sectra Group

The Sectra Group’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical IT and secure communications. Sectra has subsidiaries in 14 countries and operates through partners worldwide. The company was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. Sales in the 2014/2015 fiscal year totaled SEK 961 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com

In the medical market, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology and other image-intensive departments, orthopaedics, pathology and rheumatology. More than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.

About KLAS

KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

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