Agfa HealthCare announces today that Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry has chosen its Enterprise Imaging unified management platform, as well as the XERO Viewer, which will allow sharing of images throughout the hospital and beyond. The contract was signed on the 31 March and installation will start mid 2015. The agreement includes support for five years, with the possibility to extend it for two additional years.
Leading provider of healthcare IT solutions
Birmingham Dental Hospital is part of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust and is the home to the University of Birmingham's School of Dentistry. The dental hospital and school of dentistry is one of only 10 in England. Providing a unique range of dental services for the people of West Midlands and further distance away, it covers all dental specialties. The hospital handles around 115,000 consultations each year.
In an open, competitive procurement tender via the NHS Supply Chain, Agfa HealthCare was shortlisted along with one other supplier, before being selected for the contract. "The functionalities of the Enterprise Imaging solution and XERO Viewer met our needs, plus we knew and trusted the Agfa HealthCare name, brand and organization," explains Martyn Langford, IT Project Manager, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
Sophisticated yet easy to use solution
Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging solution is an imaging informatics solution that automates task-based clinical productivity, for optimal total cost of ownership. This completely unified imaging platform provides a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), advanced image processing, appointment management, integration of clinical information and results reporting all in one sophisticated platform. The highly intuitive user interface delivers workflow efficiencies, while the single platform reduces complexity. Report consistency and turnaround time are improved with sectional reporting, and the solution is scalable to meet changing imaging needs.
Together with the Enterprise Imaging solution, Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry will also implement the XERO Viewer, which allows any authorized user to view patient images, regardless of department or region of origin, at any time from any authorised web-enabled device.
Enterprise Imaging solution: much more than PACS
"Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging solution was the best solution for answering our needs, especially the task-based workflow that enhances clinical productivity, the single, modern platform that optimizes total cost of ownership and the mobility that XERO gives us. In addition, its scalability gives us the possibility to expand the solution in the future to meet our evolving demands of image sharing and management," comments Jean Kelly, Superintendent Radiographer, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
"With our Enterprise Imaging solution and XERO Viewer, we will be supporting the hospital in its digital path; and thereby, in continuing its mission to provide the best healthcare service to its many patients," comments Grant Witheridge, General Manager of Agfa HealthCare. "At the same time, we are very pleased to have this opportunity to build a long-term relationship with this new customer, especially in the dental healthcare field."
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About Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust (BCHC) provides accessible and responsive community and specialist healthcare services in the city of Birmingham, the Black Country and to the wider West Midlands region. With approximately 5,000 employees, the Trust is among the largest community healthcare providers in England, delivering more than 100 clinical services flexibly in a wide range of inpatient settings, clinics and in people's homes.
Key services include community nursing and therapies, school nursing, health visiting and specialist services for people with learning disabilities throughout Birmingham and specialist dental and rehabilitation services accessible to people from across the West Midlands.
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 2,865 million euro in 2013.
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 2013 were 1,160 million euro.