 Agfa HealthCare announces that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, has expanded its relationship with the vendor, adding the IMPAX Data Center solution family.
A longstanding Agfa HealthCare customer, MGH also intends to upgrade to IMPAX PACS version 6.5, supporting the need for timely and informed decision making through fast access and enhanced ability to share information at the radiologist desktop.
ICIS makes imaging an integral part of the EHR
With extensive, global experience working with radiologists and complex healthcare IT environments like MGH, Agfa HealthCare understands the role of medical imaging in the enterprise and has created an imaging clinical information system (ICIS) to address clinical and IT requirements. The comprehensive solution, built upon the IMPAX Data Center platform, allows clinicians to capture, store, exchange, and access imaging information securely and independent of location, on a variety of web-enabled devices.
"Agfa HealthCare designed our ICIS suite to provide more than just storage or a vendor neutral archive, but to make imaging an integral part of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)," said Michael Green, President and CEO, Agfa HealthCare, Americas Region. "Our technologies have been developed to deliver the speed, functionality, and access that facilities like Massachusetts General Hospital need to support their research, decision support, and business intelligence needs."
Enhanced clinical information exchange
By upgrading to Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX version 6.5 and the IMPAX Data Center, the solution's open Application Programming Interface (API) and web services design will provide enhanced clinical information exchange between radiologists and clinicians. IMPAX 6.5 delivers Agfa HealthCare's XERO viewer platform, a zero footprint enterprise-wide application that provides access to healthcare data.
Agfa HealthCare IMPAX solutions will support MGH's imaging needs across its 12 locations, which use a total of 145 modalities delivering imaging studies to 220 PACS workstations for clinical and diagnostic viewing. Facilitating enterprise-wide access to multi-disciplinary imaging data, 4500 desktops across the facility will be enabled for image access.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,948 million euro in 2010.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2010 were 1,180 million euro.
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