Agfa HealthCare announces that Prime Healthcare Services has agreed to purchase 50 Agfa DX-D 100 mobile DR units to serve its hospitals after a thorough due diligence process. Agfa HealthCare was chosen for its leading edge value proposition which included - in addition to the clinical benefits - its unique Technology Evolution Financing, allowing Prime Healthcare to acquire a minimum of 50 mobile DR systems over a 60-month period. By bundling the resources of sales, service, and financing, Prime Healthcare Services will enjoy an inclusive and complete digital mobile solution with equipment and maintenance protection for optimal use. These units will be deployed in 2015, with the possibility to increase the number of units to 70 or more.
One-year assessment leads to choice of Agfa HealthCare
With more than 35,000 employees and staff, Prime Healthcare is an award-winning hospital management company, operating 34 acute care hospitals in 11 states of the U.S. Founded in 2001, the Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare is a leading healthcare service provider in the country, and is committed to preserving access to healthcare and turning hospitals into thriving, community assets. President and CEO of Prime Healthcare Services, Prem Reddy, has been named to Modern Healthcare's prestigious list of the "50 Most Influential Physician Executives" for 2015.
In 2014, Prime Healthcare began a very competitive evaluation of providers of mobile DR solutions, including Agfa HealthCare. Following a one-year assessment, Agfa HealthCare was selected as the mobile DR vendor of choice.
Image quality, dose reduction potential, increased workflow and connectivity
"We are honored to be the chosen vendor for mobile radiography applications by such a prestigious and quality focused healthcare provider. Agfa HealthCare endeavors to serve Prime Healthcare's mission to provide comprehensive, optimized patient care through the use of our solutions with industry-leading MUSICA image quality, radiation dose reduction potential, and productivity advantages with the Agfa mobile DR's workflow-optimized GUI and its RIS connectivity directly from the user interface," comments Ueli Laupper, DR Business Director, Agfa HealthCare. "Utilizing our affiliated finance company, we are able to provide Prime Healthcare an attractive tailored acquisition financing model covering all operating costs including maintenance, continuous image quality optimization and even detector protection for a predictable, stable operating cost of our technology. Another major advantage of our value proposition is the ability to share detectors between mobile applicatons and radiography rooms, as 'room retrofits', enabling maximum operational flexibilities and further cost savings."
Mobile imaging excellence, with the DX-D 100
The DX-D 100 is a maneuverable DR unit combining full mobility with Agfa HealthCare's 'gold-standard' MUSICA image processing, which offers excellent contrast detail and image quality. The result enables high-quality radiology exams to be efficiently performed in mobile environments, including intensive care units (ICUs), emergency departments, operating rooms or at the bedside. The DX-D 100 comes with Agfa HealthCare's intuitive MUSICA workstation, which enables technologists to quickly and efficiently acquire images. The DX-D 100 is available with conventional Gadolinium DR panels, and to take advantage of potential dose reduction capabilities, the DX-D 100 is also available with high-DQE Cesium DR panels.
Performant solutions and flexible financial services
"Agfa HealthCare was able to offer us the mobile DR solutions and service we need for our hospitals, supporting us in our mission to deliver comprehensive, quality healthcare in a convenient, compassionate and cost effective manner," comments Seetha Reddy, Vice President of Ancillary Operations, Prime Healthcare. "Following our very competitive and thorough evaluation, we are confident that Agfa HealthCare is the right solution provider for us for mobile DR."
"We are very pleased to take this first step towards a long-term relationship with Prime Healthcare, starting with these 50 DX-D 100 mobile DR units," comments Lenny J. Reznik, Vice President Marketing, Agfa HealthCare North America. "This agreement represents another milestone for our DR business - proving we have the solutions and services in place to meet and exceed the requirements of the most demanding and quality focused healthcare providers."
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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 2,620 million euro in 2014.
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 2014 were 1,069 million euro.
About Prime Healthcare Services
Prime Healthcare is an award-winning national hospital system with 34 acute-care hospitals providing more than 35,000 jobs in 11 states. Based in California and one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Prime Healthcare is committed to ensuring access to quality healthcare. It has been recognized as among the "100 Top Hospitals" in the nation 33 times and among the "15 Top Health Systems" three times, and is the only "10 Top Health System" west of the Mississippi. Our hospitals have been recognized by The Joint Commission among the "Top Performers on Key Quality Measures" in 2014.
Prime Healthcare is dedicated to serving our patients and communities. Since 2010, our hospitals have provided more than $2 billion in charity and uncompensated care. We provide more charity care than any other hospital system in California (excluding public hospitals) and nearly double the state average. With over $800 million invested in capital improvements since 2005, we are committed to transforming all of our hospitals into award-winning centers of excellence.