 Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has been awarded a new three year, multi-source, contract by HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) to provide Computed Radiography products at competitive terms and conditions to their more than 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care hospitals, 120 alternate care sites, and 3,600 physician practices in the United States.
The contract names Agfa HealthCare as a provider of a comprehensive assortment of Computed Radiography (CR) systems.
Agfa HealthCare's entire line of CR hardware, software, accessories, and service maintenance agreements is covered in this contract. Agfa HealthCare's CR line includes the CR 85-X high capacity multi-plate system; its two single plate systems, CR 35-X and the CR 30-X, and the innovative, needle detector based CR system, DX-S. Also included is Agfa HealthCare's newest high-throughput multi-plate DX-G solution, a CR system with outstanding flexibility for general radiography and designed to handle both needle-based detector plates (NIP), as well as standard phosphor plates (PIP). All Agfa HealthCare CR solutions are available with its workflow optimizing NX graphical user interface and award winning MUSICA2 image processing algorithms.
Effective April 1, 2010, this contract will be the latest in a progression of Agfa HealthCare's ongoing relationship with HPG and its member facilities that spans back to 1999. Agfa HealthCare also has a Film, Dry Media, and Imagers on contract with HPG.
Agfa HealthCare works in a consultative relationship with its customers in order to help them achieve seamless integration and connectivity across the enterprise. The company's success is based on its ability to offer a unique combination of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT expertise that helps organizations improve healthcare delivery through a comprehensive, image-enabled electronic medical record.
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 2,755 million euro in 2009.
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 2009 were 1,178 million euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfahealthcare.com. |
