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State-of-the-art image capture, archive, and viewing technologies designed to Visualize the EHR to be showcased at HIMSS 2010 on March 1 - 4, 2010 in Atlanta.

One of the more common challenges healthcare organizations face is effectively capturing, managing, and sharing clinical imaging information across the enterprise or Health Information Exchanges ( HIE ). This challenge is compounded by an explosive growth in imaging data and a sprawl of proprietary imaging systems that have effectively trapped the organization's data and its users within a single, departmental application. Today's CMIO/CIO can break this deadlock by practicing improved stewardship of the organization's clinical imaging information. By deploying a vendor-neutral, enterprise-class clinical imaging infrastructure, the CIO can provide clinical users with the ability to efficiently capture, store, view, and manipulate images and results. This can be accomplished by extending the capabilities of the existing or planned electronic medical or health record with open standards technology.

Agfa HealthCare 's IMPAX Data Center and IMPAX Data Center Viewer uniquely solve these enterprise imaging storage infrastructure and viewing needs, enabling a longitudinal imaging patient record in the continuity of care.

Visualize the EHR

IMPAX Data Center - Agfa HealthCare will highlight its industry leading vendor-neutral medical imaging repository that allows healthcare facilities to efficiciently 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 standards-based infrastructure, IMPAX Data Center is a central component of a hospital's archive, access, and disaster recovery strategies across a wide range of departmental PACS and imaging solutions.

IMPAX Data Center serves a key role in bringing the last major information space - imaging - into the Electronic Medical Record ( EMR ) or regional Electronic Health Record ( EHR ). Agfa HealthCare 's IMPAX Data Center provides large-scale multimedia storage for DICOM 3.0 medical images and diagnostic results including DICOM-encapsulated images, reports, waveforms, and .pdfs 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 help 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 HIMSS 2010 , Agfa will highlight a revolutionary medical imaging and results viewer that address one of the most common issues facing healthcare CIOs and CMIOS today: extending the electronic medical or health record ( EMR , EHR ) to include support for all medical images and related information, providing physicians with point-of-care access to the longitudinal patient record. Using XERO technology, Agfa HealthCare 's innovative viewer embeds image content into the EHR and renders it accessible by those who need it, whether in-hospital clinicians or referring physicians using a wide variety of browsers and networks on their office or home computers.

Source: HIMSS

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