Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, announces today that it will be profiling its expanded portfolio of healthcare solutions at ECR 2010. New market introductions include the company's DX-G and DX-M Computed Radiography solutions, a Nuclear Medicine Information System, a clinical capture suite and a newly acquired contrast media portfolio.
Agfa HealthCare offers broadest portfolio of CR and DR solutions to date
First introduction of DX-M, a CR solution for Mammography and all general radiology needs
First introduced at ECR 2010, Agfa HealthCare's DX-M is a CR solution able to handle both needle-based detector plates (NIP), as well as standard phosphor plates (PIP). The solution’s ability to read NIP for Mammography requirements as well as NIP for general radiography means that the solution meets a market demand for high quality diagnostic images across needs, and offers potential dose reduction. Its small footprint and user friendly drop-and-go buffer allows it do deliver a high throughput, enhancing the department's overall workflow. The dedicated mammography needle-based detector and is compatible with existing breast imaging modalities, providing cost efficiency. Its small footprint, fast preview and user friendly drop-and-go buffer allows it do deliver a high throughput, enhancing the department's overall workflow. The solution is Agfa HealthCare's most complete CR system to date.
European introduction of DX-G, a next-generation flexible CR system
A highlight at ECR will be the launch of a next generation CR system with outstanding flexibility for general radiography. DX-G supports general radiology, extremities, neonatal and pediatric applications with the flexibility of handling both standard phosphor imaging plates and needle based detectors. The needle detectors with high image quality offer the potential for dose reduction. It combines excellent imaging quality with high throughput delivered by a unique five cassette drop-and-go buffer for seamless workflow. It is housed in a compact system comprising the top features of already proven Agfa HealthCare CR systems. Requiring no dedicated area, its small footprint allows it to be placed easily inside the X-ray room or within the X-ray ward, where it can be slotted into small spaces.
Agfa HealthCare expands Radiology IT offering: more speed, more clinical depth and extensive enterprise functionalities
Agfa HealthCare expands portfolio with Nuclear Medicine Information System introduction
With IMPAX Nuclear Medicine Information System (NIS), IMPAX, IMPAX Reporting and OASIS for IMPAX, Agfa HealthCare offers clinicians a unique solution which fully automates the nuclear medicine department's workflow and optimizes the communication between nuclear medicine specialists and other departments. The solution allows users to schedule a patient’s entire examination flow, from arrival and process management through reporting and distribution of all nuclear medicine studies and reports. IMPAX NIS supports complex scheduling requirements, including comprehensive resource planning, and can be integrated with the department's hot lab management solution to digitize and automate preparation of radiopharmaceuticals and registration of radiation dose. IMPAX and IMPAX Reporting offer highly automated workflow and archiving functionalities. A fully featured Nuclear Medicine image processing and analysis software package is offered through OASIS for IMPAX.
Agfa HealthCare expands portfolio with the IMPAX Clinical Capture Suite
To meet the ever growing diagnostic imaging demand beyond the walls of the Radiology department, Agfa HealthCare is launching a new solution designed to deliver a unified Enterprise Imaging repository, providing a single point of access for the storage and distribution of all of the hospitals' imaging sources. The IMPAX Clinical Capture Suite provides the workflow and informatics to capture, store and visualize non-DICOM modalities while providing the certainty and integrity of DICOM modalities.
Regional care: IMPAX Data Center takes center stage at ECR 2010
The requirement for care providers to be able to secure, access and share data at the point of patient care is a common need, regardless of whether this is done on a national, regional, local or departmental level. To meet this requirement head-on, Agfa HealthCare will highlight its industry leading, vendor-neutral medical imaging repository that allows healthcare facilities to efficiently manage and share clinical imaging information. Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Data Center is the foundation for healthcare enterprises looking to take control of clinical imaging information using a standards-based infrastructure. IMPAX Data Center is an important component of a hospital's archive, access, and disaster recovery strategies across a wide range of regional and departmental PACS and imaging solutions.
Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Data Center provides large-scale multimedia storage for DICOM and DICOM-encapsulated medical images and diagnostic results for hospital groups, regional healthcare organizations and national medical archives. The solution consolidates imaging data from disparate systems into a single point of storage and distribution via the EHR, to facilitate and speed decision-making. Through enterprise-wide and vendor-neutral image management services, Agfa HealthCare solutions help enable facilities to provide clinicians with comprehensive, 24/7 access to images and results while enhancing image-focused communications among interdisciplinary care teams.
IMPAX Data Center Viewer, powered by XERO
At ECR 2010 Agfa HealthCare will highlight a revolutionary medical imaging and results viewer. The task of delivering images and information to caregivers across a wide range of technical and physical barriers has been solved in a unique way. IMPAX Data Center Viewer, powered by XERO, is a zero-download medical imaging viewer developed to provide access to imaging information for clinicians at any point of care, regardless of network constraints and/or the wide variance of platforms and administrative rules that can be so problematic for typical viewers. By bridging the gap between the stringent controls of medical image formats, such as DICOM, and the flexible access formats of the internet, such as HTTP, IMPAX Data Center Viewer, powered by XERO, accesses and delivers all your images and reports but with none of the heavy infrastructure associated with legacy viewers. Only an Internet browser and a simple network connection are needed; zero client software installation is required. IMPAX Data Center Viewer's innovation is based on the utilization of standards from healthcare IT (i.e.DICOM SR, C-Find, C-Move, WADO, and IHE actors for ATNA, CPI, SINR, KIN, and SWF) as well as general IT standards (i.e. LDAP, SSO, HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, JPEG and RESTful web services).
IMPAX Radiology RIS/PACS /Reporting
Improving radiology services, Agfa HealthCare's RIS/PACS/Reporting solution provides a complete and unified workflow for information and images, creating context between tools and tasks and simplifying radiologist reporting activities, resulting in increasing throughput and decreasing report turnaround times.
The IMPAX RIS delivers functionality and workflow for every user, providing customization to support any hospital's radiology workflow; from the reception desk to worklist management, from inventory tracking to tracking a patient's progress in the department, from integrated reporting with voice recognition to results distribution.
The IMPAX 6 workstation is the heart of the solution, employing automated task management to help keep your practice efficient. IMPAX 6's unified client combines the information from the RIS, the HIS, the modalities and other sources into one easy to read display in context with the image review area, placing the key information at the user’s fingertips to support informed decision making and simplify reporting tasks, Because IMPAX employs a fully integrated reporting toolset, report generation and signoff can be accomplished in as little as two mouse clicks... start and finish!
The newest version of IMPAX Radiology PACS software, IMPAX 6.5, introduces new workflows to deliver high performance regardless of network or location. Employing newly designed Workstation Accelerator technology, IMPAX 6.5 combines workflow and location recognition to provide optimum performance under even less then optimal conditions.
Delivering results is the key to any successful practice, and IMPAX 6 can provide information where it is needed. With several viewer options, enterprise users may choose the application that fits their need, from simple results and image review to advanced image processing through rendering technology. IMPAX fits the tools to the user - not the user to the tools.
IMPAX 6 solutions enable the extended desktop, providing optional fully integrated modules to expand your practice. With advanced image processing for Registration and Fusion, Digital Angiography and Orthopedic Measurement and fully integrated 3D processing, IMPAX lets you manage your image processing activities from one application.
IMPAX 6 also delivers a more powerful multi-modality desktop. From Breast Imaging to Nuclear Medicine, from Orthopedics to Cardiology, the IMPAX departmental extensions converge Enterprise imaging needs under one solution, sharing content and workflow.
IMPAX for Breast Imaging
By both mirroring conventional mammography workflow in a very intuitive way and supporting rapid display of multi-modality images, IMPAX for Breast Imaging advances the reporting workflow in a digital mammography environment. Within both screening and diagnostic imaging environments, this DICOM-compliant diagnostic review station allows clinicians to work with relevant patient images within one display station. This includes all breast imaging modalities, as well as other diagnostic imaging studies. IMPAX for Breast Imaging incorporates a data management system that automatically routes relevant data (for example, Breast US, digital mammography, and Breast MR) based on a variety of user-definable criteria including modality, patient, and referring physician. Relevant prior exams can be pre-fetched from the archive management system and sent automatically to the diagnostic review station. When available, radiology results from the Radiology Information Systems (RIS) can also be displayed.
IMPAX Cardiovascular
Agfa HealthCare's vendor-independent and patient-centric approach to image and report management allows facilities to manage and consolidate the entire cardiovascular patient record. IMPAX Cardiovascular enables cardiology and vascular departments to choose powerful technology solutions that extend their diagnostic capabilities. Agfa HealthCare’s booth at ECR 2010 will showcase image review, processing and reporting for multiple modalities, including adult and pediatric echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, cardiac catheterization, nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT, as well as our ECG management solution, IMPAX HeartStation. With integration and enhanced communication with standards-based hospital information distribution systems, including PACS/RIS, HIS/CIS, CPOE and EMR/EHR, IMPAX Cardiovascular is designed to support legacy IT investments as well as preserve freedom of choice for future tool selection.
New Works in Progress at ECR 2010 to drive future portfolio expansion
Agfa HealthCare showcases new mobile DR solution (Work in Progress)
At ECR 2010, Agfa HealthCare will showcase its fully motorized DX-D 100 mobile DR detector. This high quality mobile detector will enhance Agfa HealthCare's range of DR solutions. The solution is supported by MUSICA2, Agfa HealthCare's gold standard image processing software for superior image quality and makes use of its established NX platform for smooth workflow. The DX-D 100 is provided with a 15 inch screen and superior battery autonomy for long life. The DX-D 100 will be displayed next to the company's DX-D 500 wall and ceiling solution and the DX-D 300 U-arm DR systems at ECR 2010.
Agfa HealthCare reveals new DX-D 10C retrofit detector at film cassette size (Work in Progress)
At ECR 2010 Agfa HealthCare will also display its DX-D 10C portable detector with needle crystals. The benefit of Agfa HealthCare’s DX-D 10C is that it has the size of a film cassette fits perfectly into an existing analog bucky and can thus be retrofitted in the field. System integrators can use this detector to transform analog X-ray units into digital ones with Agfa HealthCare's DX-D Integrator Packages. These contain an acquisition workstation running the NX software, including the company’s leading MUSICA2 image processing and a DX-D detector. The combination of needle scintillator and MUSICA2 yields excellent diagnostic images.
Agfa HealthCare to present expanded consumables market portfolio at ECR 2010
Agfa HealthCare expands portfolio with Contrast Media solutions
Agfa HealthCare recently announced that it had expanded its current offering of consumables through the acquisition of Insight Agents GmbH in Germany. Insight Agents is a European developer and producer of contrast. The expansion into contrast media is an important step for Agfa HealthCare as it builds and expands its diagnostic imaging portfolio towards future growth opportunities. Insight Agents GmbH develops, produces and distributes generic contrast agents.
Agfa HealthCare expands range with Surgical Procedure Sets (Work in Progress)
Agfa HealthCare will be displaying its new portfolio of Surgical Procedure Sets at ECR 2010, their first introduction in Europe. Agfa HealthCare's Surgical Procedure Sets (which include disposable drapes and gowns for surgery environments) will carry the company's own brand label: SEPARIO. Agfa HealthCare's new product line offers users comfort, strength, fluids handling and impermeability, enabling care facilities to meet health and hygiene standards and support the well-being of their patients and staff. Agfa HealthCare's new consumables will be distributed via its extensive global logistical network, built on the distribution of medical film.
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The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analog 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 3,032 million euro in 2008.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. The business group has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2008 were 1,223 million euro.
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