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Agfa HealthCare IMPAX Cardiovascular supports interfacing of Cedaron CardiacCare solutions for cardiology outcomes data collection and national database reporting

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that it has expanded the capabilities of its healthcare IT (IMPAX CV) with advanced software for cardiology outcomes management from Cedaron Medical, Inc, a developer of quality measurement solutions for the healthcare industry.

IMPAX CV now interfaces with Cedaron's CardiacCare solutions for cardiology outcomes data collection and national database reporting. The offering allows clinical users to collect procedural information and automatically import the required data to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), the Society for Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database, and a number of state and provincial registries and databases. The advanced capability is offered as part of Agfa HealthCare's physician reporting solution.

"The introduction of the broader offerings of Cedaron's CardiacCare reporting is consistent with our belief that doctors and healthcare facilities should have access to the applications that best meet their needs," said Lisa Braunreuther, Global Business Manager of Cardiology IT for Agfa HealthCare. "With recent changes to the ACC PCI collection format, cardiovascular departments are re-assessing the performance of their existing data collection system. Our integrated solution helps care providers manage data for all of the existing ACC, STS, and state and provincial registries via the same easy-to-use system."

The combined solution of IMPAX CV and Cedaron provides image and procedural report management for invasive cardiac, thoracic and vascular procedures. It allows clinical users to collect procedural information and automatically populate the required data into the appropriate ACC, STS or local registry templates. In addition to registry support, Cedaron also provides clinical data users with tools to query, benchmark, and report on the collected results.

"Cedaron is pleased to supply Agfa HealthCare customers the Cedaron CardiacCare registry solution for their national and state reporting needs," said Karen Bond, President, Cedaron Medical, Inc. "Cedaron has been a Certified Vendor for more than 10 years for the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and has a best-in-class solution for Registry Reporting."

IMPAX CV, Agfa HealthCare's solution for cardiovascular image and information management, reporting and access, enables clinicians to easily extract relevant patient information and render clinical data into consistent structured reports. It delivers a patient-centric view of a patient's entire imaging record by providing single sign-on access to multi-vendor, multimodality images and information. Built to satisfy the most demanding clinical workflow, IMPAX CV delivers innovative features, including advanced image management functionalities, structured reporting and secure enterprise-wide access to diagnostic data.

Source: Agfa HealthCare