Agfa HealthCare Chooses ETIAM for Normalization of Multispecialty Images and Documents

ETIAMETIAM has entered into a global distribution agreement with Agfa HealthCare for its medical integration solution: DICOM Izer. ETIAM's solutions allow for the capture and connectivity of multimedia data to the enterprise archive and Electronic Medical Records. The applications make it possible for documents, images, video, reports, and other clinical information to be digitally stored in Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Medical Imaging Repository, IMPAX® Data Center.

ETIAM's solutions allow a wide range of data and devices from several sources such as digital cameras, scanners, digitizers, endoscopes, microscopes, digital files and software applications to "connect" to the central archive and use a common archiving and distribution workflow for all departments within the institution.

Because no equipment, no treatment, and no process is identical across departments, this suite of integration tools is made of several modules that seamlessly bridge EMR, clinical systems, and the Archive repository.

ETIAM's solutions provide media content integration to the IT infrastructure as an integral part of the procedure. The Agfa HealthCare IMPAX® family of products will then provide storage, archive and distribution of multi-departmental clinical imaging data to all caregivers at the point of care. Customers will save time and money and improve the delivery of care because of a unified clinical infrastructure.

"We are very excited to start this relationship with Agfa HealthCare because we bring not only a solution but a complete clinical integration service," said Jérôme Champetier de Ribes, CEO of ETIAM.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.etiam.com

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 3,032 million euros in 2008.

About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. The business group has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2008 were 1,223 million Euro.

About ETIAM
ETIAM is a worldwide leader providing connectivity and interoperability solutions to the healthcare and medical imaging industry. The company's focus on international healthcare standards including DICOM, HL7 and IHE profiles, uniquely positions it to provide both development tool kits for OEM and software solutions for hospitals and medical facilities throughout the world. ETIAM's product portfolio focuses on capturing, manipulating, displaying and distributing medical images and relevant clinical data for integration with the organizations existing PACS and EMR.

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