Sectra Initiates Cooperation with Zimmer for Orthopedic Surgery

IT and medical imaging company Sectra (Linköping, Sweden) and Zimmer GmbH (Winterthur, Switzerland), a global leader in musculoskeletal care, have signed a nonexclusive cooperation agreement.

Sectra, a market leader in orthopedic planning, develops and markets digital planning tools that can be used to plan both joint reconstruction and trauma surgery. The online service functions, regardless of the customer’s picture archiving and communication system (PACS) supplier and the preoperative planning tools, can improve quality of care by increasing preoperative planning accuracy, thus reducing risks of postoperative complications. The agreement will allow Zimmer to provide its customers in certain European countries with Sectra’s online preoperative planning system for orthopedic surgery.

The Sectra online service, called Sectra Preop Online, provides high-precision digital templating tools to surgeons that allows them to digitally plan their joint replacement surgeries for an optimal surgical outcome. With digital templating, the orthopedic surgeons can create a consistent and well-documented workflow, increase accuracy when planning implant sizes and alignments, plan for different scenarios beforehand, and ensure that the right implants are always available.

“Through cooperation with partners with an extensive network and high market presence, Sectra anticipates expanding its orthopedic business further,” says Hanna Eriksson, General Manager of Sectra’s orthopedic operations.

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