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Vendor-neutral enterprise image management and storage solution supports ongoing healthcare reform in Nordic markets

Imaging management solution consolidating data from disparate systems across departments, hospitals and regions -
Serves a key role in creating a longitudinal electronic health record - Proven solution: 25 installations in Europe and North America backed by 20 years of experience in healthcare IT.

Agfa HealthCare , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces the launch of IMPAX Data Center, its award-winning enterprise medical imaging repository, in the Nordic Region. The launch supports Agfa HealthCare 's commitment to this region, which has long been at the forefront of healthcare IT use in its care system. Agfa HealthCare is well-positioned to support the individual countries' healthcare ambitions: to reduce costs while increasing efficiency in the delivery of patient care.

Forward-looking demand for regionally-driven healthcare structure

The Scandinavian region encompassing Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway is often seen as an early adopter of some of the most recent and innovative healthcare IT solutions. As boundaries between care providers, hospitals and care facilities of all kinds fade into more regionally-driven care structures, several markets in the region have also adapted their healthcare models to meet current demands.

Bringing imaging into a unified, integrated, centrally-managed system

Agfa HealthCare is focused on fulfilling the needs of these healthcare facilities in consolidating their IT infrastructure, sharing data and potentially operating in a setting with shared workflows among hospitals, clinics or even health regions.
IMPAX Data Center, a scalable, PACS-vendor neutral, enterprise image management solution that integrates and links data across departments, facilities and regions, is the cornerstone for such an environment.

IMPAX Data Center serves a key role in creating a longitudinal image enabled Electronic Medical Record ( EMR ) or regional Electronic Health Record ( EHR ), bringing the next major information space - imaging - into a unified, tightly-integrated and centrally-managed system.

Single point of access to image data

With IMPAX Data Center Viewer, powered by XERO, authorized clinicians regardless of location have a single point of access to imaging data from disparate systems. IMPAX Data Center Viewer is a zero footprint web viewer that accommodates a wide variety of platforms and has modest network bandwidth requirements using the latest Web 2.0 technology.

Hospitals become active players in e-Health initiatives

IMPAX Data Center supports the functionality to store and manage native DICOM 3.0 and/or DICOM 3.0 encapsulated data, but also provides support for IHE's Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) integration profile, including the imaging-specific integration profile: Cross Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I). This makes IMPAX Data Center suitable for storing and exchanging patient records originating from different healthcare organizations or enterprises.

IMPAX Data Center enables hospitals to become active players in e-Health initiatives, because it acts as an XDS-I proxy for Picture Archiving and Communication Systems ( PACS ) that do not support XDS-I. These PACS can continue to use DICOM, while also accessing patient imaging data from other organizations.

IMPAX Data Center offers cost, efficiency and enhanced care benefits

"Our proven IMPAX Data Center solution supports imaging needs as facilities expand from local to regional care or from single to multi-site facilities, driven by demand for cost reduction and improved efficiency and care delivery," explains Georgios Spitadakis, Head of Marketing IT Region Europe at Agfa HealthCare. "With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare IT , we are an excellent match for an early-adopter region like Scandinavia to support this next level move."

Source: Agfa HealthCare

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