San Diego, CA (HIMSS Booth #5633) – February 13, 2006

Agfa HealthCare announced today the release of TalkStation™ 3.1, Agfa’s speech recognition software platform for radiology. TalkStation 3.1 provides enhanced security features and improved recognition accuracy.

Using Dragon’s NaturallySpeaking™ 8.1, TalkStation 3.1 provides improved recognition accuracy and increases departmental responsiveness through rapid report turnaround and flexible information sharing between departments. In addition, a customized language model has been added to further improve accuracy.

"Several sites have already been upgraded to TalkStation 3.1, which has been extremely well received by new and existing customers alike," said David Talton, Reporting Solutions Manager, Agfa HealthCare, North America. "We are rapidly upgrading our install base, bringing them improved speech recognition services and helping them to make their departments work much more efficiently."

Version 3.1 also provides support for Microsoft Windows XP and e-signature capabilities to meet the enhanced security demands of many institutions.


About Talkstation

TalkStation speech recognition software provides hospitals and private radiology practices with significant reporting flexibility. It provides application workflows that match departmental dynamics. TalkStation couples specialized vocabularies and language models with a true Radiology Department workflow solution. Workflow differentiation is demonstrated through the use of worklists, resident report routing, dictation options, batch processing options, template efficiencies and industry standard coding.


About Agfa

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the worlds leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analog and digital systems for the graphics industry, the healthcare sector and specific industrial applications. Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is active in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,762 million euro in 2004.

Agfa’s HealthCare business group supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-art systems for the capturing, processing and managing of diagnostic images and with IT solutions that integrate the imaging workflow into the overall hospital operations across departmental disciplines. In addition, Agfa is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which healthcare facilities become more efficient and effective, with improved patient outcomes.
For more information on Agfa, visit www.agfa.com.

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Contacts:

Geertrui De Smet
Global PR Manager HealthCare
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fax: +32 (0) 3 444 72 85 
e-mail: geertruidesmet@agfapress.com

Johan Jacobs
Corporate Press Relations Manager
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e-mail: johan.jacobs@agfa.com