 Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a new three-year, multi-source contract by the group purchasing division of the Premier healthcare alliance, Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P.
By the terms of the agreement, Agfa HealthCare will provide film and medical imagers at competitive terms and conditions to the alliance's 2,500 member hospitals and 75,000 other alternate healthcare sites in the United States.
Agfa HealthCare provides comprehensive portfolio
The contract highlights Agfa HealthCare as a provider of a comprehensive assortment of medical film and imagers, including conventional screen film, mammography film, screens and cassettes, dry media and dry imagers.
Agfa HealthCare's entire line of diagnostic film, media and imagers is covered in the contract. This includes the company's complete family of imagers, such as the DRYSTAR AXYS, DRYSTAR 5503, DRYSTAR 5300, and DRYSTAR 5302. The DRYSTAR AXYS and DRYSTAR 5503 also offer mammography printing capabilities.
Long-term consultative relationship
Effective as of September 1, 2011, this contract is the latest in the progression of Agfa HealthCare's ongoing relationship with Premier and its member facilities, going back to 1995. Agfa HealthCare also has Enterprise Image Management Solutions (EIMS) and Computed Radiography (CR) contracts with Premier.
Unique experiences support customers' needs
"Agfa HealthCare works in a consultative relationship with its customers in order to help them achieve seamless integration and connectivity across the enterprise," said Ray Russell, Director of Marketing & Operations for Agfa HealthCare US. "We are committed to offering a unique combination of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT experiences that allows for a fully integrated image-enabled electronic medical record, supporting the full spectrum of our current and future customer needs."
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals and 75,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals, health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington.
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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