Agfa HealthCare to Demonstrate its IMPAX Cardiovascular IT Solutions at ESC Congress 2012

Agfa HealthCareAgfa HealthCare announces that it will demonstrate its cardiovascular IT solutions at the 2012 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Munich. Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX cardiovascular solutions provide a patient-centric consolidation of all relevant cardiology procedures on a shared true enterprise platform, with a true clinical workflow mapping and in-depth clinical content, and with refined clinical tools.

A single platform integrating all cardiovascular clinical procedures
At the ESC Congress 2012, Agfa HealthCare will be demonstrating how its innovative portfolio of cardiovascular solutions delivers the benefits of digital cardiology at the cardiologist's fingertips. New tools within the portfolio are designed to provide in-depth procedure-oriented clinical content, while sharing a common platform with the rest of the clinical procedures (coronary and peripheral angiography, PCI, shunt closure, adult echocardiography, stress testing, electrophysiology, ablation and device therapy - PM, ICD, CRT).One-click front-end image-data integration, clinical workflow integration from report elaboration to report distribution and a unified clinical back-end for research data complete the consolidation of images and data across the wide range of cardiology sub-specialties.

The ESC Congress takes place in Munich, Germany, from August 25 to 29, 2012, at the ICM - Internationales Congress Center München Messe München GmbH, Messegelände, 81823 Munich.

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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 3,023 million euro in 2011.

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 2011 were 1,177 million euro.

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