Agfa HealthCare announced that Hunt Regional Healthcare, Greenville, Texas, has upgraded its Agfa HealthCare PACS to IMPAX 6.5 and installed Agfa HealthCare's Cardiology PACS and XERO Viewer to deliver a consolidated view and centralized management of patient, image and information data.  With the addition of Agfa HealthCare's XERO Viewer, physicians are able to quickly and securely access the nearly 100,000 imaging exams and reports done each year, on virtually any Hunt Regional facility device - whether the exam was done at Hunt Regional Open Imaging of Greenville or Rockwall, Hunt Regional Medical Center, Hunt Regional Community Hospital or Hunt Regional Medical Plaza. Because the information is web-based, physicians can access the results in real time.      

XERO Viewer converts images and content for display in the browser without requiring any client software installation.  Using standards-based interfaces and powerful image processing, XERO Viewer will allow clinicians to retrieve, view and manipulate images while providing access to imaging information, including CT (Computed Tomography), X-ray, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), US (Ultrasonography), NM (Nuclear Medicine), RF (Radiographic Fluoroscopy), Mammo, and cardiology exam ECHO (Echocardiography), ECG (Electrocardiography) and Cath Lab.  XERO Viewer is part of the ICIS (Imaging Clinical Information System) solution suite that empowers enterprise-wide imaging management and accessibility.

Secured fast access to real time images

"Installing the IMPAX upgrade has made a huge difference in patient care as well as productivity," said John Ervin, Imaging Director Hunt Regional Healthcare. "Our physicians simply go to a single URL using a secure link to access images.  Not only is it easier for the physicians to get access to the information, but we're able to get images to them a lot quicker."

By allowing physicians to access patient images on mobile devices, such as Apple iPad® mobile digital devices, Hunt Regional Healthcare has improved the service it provides to the physicians

"Doctors have more time to interact with patients because they are able to obtain images in real time," said Bob Craske, Senior Marketing Manager, Agfa HealthCare U.S.  "Because the results are available much faster, physicians can have both the image and diagnostic report by the time the patient returns from having the exam, allowing for informed patient care."

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