 Agfa HealthCare announces that the Cleveland Clinic has successfully deployed Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 6.5 solution as the network's PACS (picture archiving and communication system). The facility installed IMPAX 6.5, the latest software version, as part of its contract with Agfa HealthCare to provide the Agfa HealthCare IMPAX platform.
The centralized Imaging Clinical Information System (ICIS) is built upon
IMPAX Data Center, an image management and repository solution that provides a rich suite of image capture, store, exchange and access services. The ICIS implementation is part of the clinic's strategy to develop a single repository and point of access for all medical imaging data across the enterprise, encompassing not only radiology but also the rapidly growing number of other imaging information producing departments, such as ophthalmology and digestive disease. To support the strategy, the Clinic plans to deploy Agfa HealthCare's XERO technology viewer, allowing imaging information to be viewed directly from the Clinic's Epic electronic health record (EHR) solution.
Migration of legacy image data: throughput with stability
The Cleveland Clinic migrated 5.6 million studies. IMPAX 6.5 is a fully integrated RIS/PACS workflow solution for data management and reporting, offering improved productivity through the complete imaging chain, from order management to results distribution. IMPAX 6.5 leverages automated task management with an efficient presentation of relevant clinical information synchronized to the study to support informed healthcare delivery.
Key focus for workflow efficiency in mammography
One of the key focuses for workflow efficiency in IMPAX 6.5 is Women's Care, and the Cleveland Clinic Breast Center, part of the Cleveland Clinic Women's Health Institute, was the first group to "go live" in 2010. The results, including the reduction in the number of technologist workflow steps by at least 30 percent and the reduction in the number of radiologist workflow steps by at least 40 percent or more are documented in the white paper, "Diagnostic Breast Imaging Solution Eliminates Digital Islands and Integrates Workflow."
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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