Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with the Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum+ (University Medical Center - UMC+) in The Netherlands to install its IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System (RIS/PACS) and IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine. The solutions will provide workflow support to both the radiology and nuclear medicine departments. The contract was signed on 18 October 2011, and implementation will begin in January 2012.
Supporting the entire patient clinical path
Maastricht UMC+ was created in January 2008 by the merging of the university hospital of Maastricht (azM) and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of the Maastricht University. In addition to healthcare, UMC+ focuses on education and research activities. It counts over 700 beds, employs over 5000 hospital staff members and educates over 4000 university students. Maastricht UMC+ (the + refers to the integration of medicine and health science in the care chain) treats patients with all types of diseases, from the simple to the very complex.
The agreement between UMC+ and Agfa HealthCare includes the IMPAX RIS/PACS and IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine. These solutions enable users to electronically manage radiology and nuclear medicine operations, end-to-end, from exam ordering to patient registration, through worklist generation and medical reporting, to report distribution. The specialized solutions for radiology and nuclear medicine departments are designed to boost efficiency, improve workflow, increase productivity and help deliver high-quality information to hospital staff, patients and referring physicians.
Solution handles all nuclear medicine exams
The IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine information system comprises an intelligent planning module, which supports complex workflows, and can handle comprehensive resource planning and scheduling across multiple departments. The solution also includes the fully integrated, vendor-neutral Oasis for IMPAX, developed in cooperation with Segami Corp., which makes it possible to work with, analyze and report all nuclear medicine exams, including SPECT and PET, and multi-modality exams, from a single workstation.
The IMPAX solutions offer the extensive functionality, workflow support and system reliability Maastricht UMC+ requires, as well as improved efficiency for the in-vivo diagnostic process and a next-generation roadmap. As Maastricht UMC+ produces more than 199,000 medical images each year; the IMPAX solutions will enable improvements to the efficiency of the medical imaging.
Agfa HealthCare was the only supplier that could meet the specific requirements of UMC+. With its installed base in Europe and around the world, the company is a market leader in RIS/PACS and Regional Health.
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue 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 2,948 million euro in 2010.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2010 were 1,180 million euro.