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Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has successfully installed its IMPAX picture archiving and communications system ( PACS ) and computed radiography ( CR ) systems in ten hospitals that are part of the Spire Healthcare Group .

Spire Healthcare is the UK’s second largest private hospital provider. Following a number of recent acquisitions, the Group’s network now numbers 36 facilities and covers the entire UK. The conversion to computed radiography has enabled the sites to move away from wet film and on to digital imaging . The new digital systems have made image storage and retrieval far easier and has also enabled consultant radiologists working with Spire Healthcare to use 3D reconstruction and work with orthopaedic templating software for the first time.

In order to ensure Spire Healthcare ’s staff derived the maximum benefit from the new systems as rapidly as possible, Agfa HealthCare trained the independent hospital group’s systems administrators. They were then able to ‘cascade’ the training across all of the recipient sites.According to Marc O’Brien, Spire Healthcare’s IM&T Director, “ Agfa HealthCare responded very well to the challenge of rolling out so many systems. Staff at the ten sites have found the new systems to be very easy to use and we are already receiving very positive feedback from our clinical staff about the new funtionality it has put at their fingertips”.

Hans Vandewyngaerde, Vice President Europe at Agfa HealthCare said, "It is great to hear that the successful installation of our solutions has enabled the consultant radiologists at these Spire Healthcare sites to harness the latest imaging technology, and to know that they are now fully prepared to make active use of all the benefits a digital environment offers. The completion of this fully integrated Imaging and IT solutions project marks yet another successful roll-out in Europe for Agfa HealthCare ."

Source: Agfa HealthCare

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