 Agfa HealthCare has teamed up with Schiller America Inc., a leading international manufacturer and supplier of electrocardiographs, stress and cardiopulmonary exercise testing, long-term ambulatory Holter ECG and blood pressure recorders, spirometers, medical IT solutions, patient monitors and external defibrillators.
Joint effort will provide complete cardiac solution at the point of care
The collaboration will make Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX HeartStation available through Schiller to hospitals, clinics, and physician practices, and will also be coupled with Schiller's ECG carts as a complete turnkey solution to help manage ECG images electronically.
"We are continuously looking for ways to bring our customers new technology to help them provide a higher quality of care and streamline clinician workflow," said David Helowicz, General Manager, Schiller America Inc. "Through this joint effort, we will be in a position to be able to provide our current and future customers a complete solution to capture, store and interpret cardiac information electronically so it can be acted upon by the cardiologist at the point of care."
Ideal match for efficient and improved workflow
Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX HeartStation is an ECG management system that automates the processing, storage, and display of electrocardiograms throughout a healthcare enterprise. Its extensive interoperability translates ECGs from resting, ambulatory, monitoring devices, and cardiac reports from stress, Holter and event monitoring applications from multiple market leading vendors into a universally familiar, easy to read format. Study data from multiple exams can be rapidly accessed, making possible review, serial comparison, editing, and electronic signing of ECGs throughout the hospital enterprise.
IMPAX HeartStation's compatibility with Schiller's ECG carts makes this solution an ideal match for doctors and other clinicians to be able to efficiently manage images and improve workflow.
"By teaming with Schiller, we're in a position to offer our leading cardiology product, typically purchased by large healthcare institutions in combination with our cardiology PACS and CVIS, to an extended market of physician practices, diagnostic centers, and community hospitals," said Rob Kenney, Global Marketing Manager, Cardiology Business Unit for Agfa HealthCare U.S. "This provides a unique opportunity for both the clinician and the patient to provide and receive enhanced, efficient diagnostic processes and care through the use of technology."
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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