Agfa HealthCare Highlights 'Need for Speed' with Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine at EANM 2015

Agfa HealthCareAgfa HealthCare will showcase how its Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine helps nuclear medicine departments excel in efficiency, increase clinical throughput and enhance cross-departmental communication, at the 2015 Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), held in Hamburg, Germany, October 10-14.

Built on proven technology, Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine is designed to meet the specific requirements of nuclear medicine, fully integrating the nuclear medicine or molecular imaging department's workflow and optimizing interdepartmental collaboration.

Integrated care
With Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine, Agfa HealthCare delivers integrated care to the nuclear medicine department. The fully automated workflow from order to result provides optimized efficiency, while the advanced image processing and speech recognition allow increased clinical throughput. Improved interdepartmental communication, such as for tumor boards, increases personalized patient care.

"Multiple modalities and increased complexity are the daily reality for the nuclear medicine department; Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine has been specifically designed to help the department to excel - in efficiency, clinical throughput and communication," comments Hans Vandewyngaerde, President EMEA at Agfa HealthCare. "It answers the 'need for speed': with all patient studies in a single window, it offers convenience, speed, a common layout and user-friendliness. Enterprise Imaging for Nuclear Medicine delivers all the benefits of integrated care to the nuclear medicine department, while supporting the hospital and caregivers in meeting the future integrated care demands of the patient-centric healthcare model."

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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 2,865 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.

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