Agfa HealthCare and Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Extend Collaboration on ORBIS Health Information System Project
Agfa HealthCare announces today that, following its original seven-year Health Information System deployment contract with Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) which achieved the deployment of ORBIS* at more than half of the AP-HP hospitals, the parties have extended their relationship for another four years with the signing of a new service agreement on 21 March, 2016. 
At the Charing Cross Congress in London, Siemens Healthcare presents the Evar Guidance Engine software application package to support minimally invasive treatment of aortic aneurysms. This is the first application package that enables an automated workflow for stent placement with fusion imaging. 
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