Agfa HealthCare announces today it has been awarded a new contract to provide a full spectrum of radiology, cardiology and enterprise imaging solutions to Novation, a leading healthcare supply chain expertise and contracting services company.
The three-year agreement is effective May 1, 2013 through April 30, 2016 extending the working relationship of more than nine years between Novation and Agfa HealthCare. Included in the extensive list of radiology and cardiology IT products now available to the members served by Novation are the following highlighted solutions:
IMPAX 6.5 - PACS system designed to streamline enterprise workflow and deliver increased efficiency and productivity to care facilities.
IMPAX RIS - Electronically manages radiology operations, IMPAX RIS streamlines processes and procedures within the radiology department and beyond.
IMPAX Business Intelligence - Optimizes the use of clinical, business and administrative data to enhance efficiency.
ICIS (Imaging Clinical Information System) - The enterprise imaging workflow-centric services platform, ICIS delivers multi-disciplinary imaging in patient-centric context via the EMR to drive powerful clinical advances and IT efficiencies.
XERO Viewer - Based on innovative, no-application download technology, Agfa HealthCare's XERO enterprise imaging viewer is a technological breakthrough that allows any clinical user to view patient images, regardless of department or region of origin, at any time from any web-enabled device.
IMPAX CV12 - A next generation integrated CVIS for cardiology departments with multiple modalities, IMPAX CV12 simplifies data collection and management throughout the workflow.
IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System - Comprehensive data management solution that automates the processing and storage of ECGs.
IMPAX for Breast Imaging - Facilitates reporting workflow in digital breast imaging environments.
"Agfa HealthCare is dedicated to providing healthcare facilities with a range of solutions that enable them to efficiently and cost-effectively access the high-quality images they need, wherever they need them," said Tara Vail, Head RIS/PACS Business Unit and IT GPO Executive, Agfa HealthCare US. "We are pleased to be able to continue working with Novation to provide the members they serve with leading imaging informatics solutions and support better patient care."
In addition to this PACS and Imaging Informatics contract, Agfa HealthCare also has existing Digital Radiography (DR) and Computed Radiography (CR) contracts with Novation.
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 2,948 million euro in 2010.
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 2010 were 1,180 million euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfahealthcare.com