Agfa HealthCare displays solution for convergence of images and clinical data through integrated lesion follow-up at EuroPCR

New capability launched as part of IMPAX™ Cardiovascular

• Press release
• Mortsel, Belgium / Barcelona, Spain
• May 13, 2008 09:00

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today that it will display its latest solution for lesion follow up at EuroPCR, held in Barcelona, Spain from 13th to 16th May, 2008. The solution, shown for the first time, will be part of the company’s leading IMPAX™ Cardiovascular for integrated data and image management in cardiology in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and will allow clinicians to focus on the lesion follow-up history. The software, which will be available later this year, allows the clinician to focus on the monitoring of the stenosis in a time-longitudinal view, with all relevant data and images in one view, rather than being required to upload the separate studies, as is currently the standard.

"The solution is an integral part of the company's drive towards the convergence of images and clinical data," says Dr Ciprian Albu, Medical Director of Agfa HealthCare for Cardiology. "Agfa HealthCare is the first to achieve a full integration of the image follow-up as part of the overall clinical follow-up of any procedures. This turns the post procedure monitoring of coronary lesions into a more time efficient process, reducing the need to sift through unrelated data"

The new feature will be incorporated into Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Cardiovascular, a solution with integrated multi-modality and multi-lingual cardiovascular information management providing a consolidated view of all cardiology and radiology images within a single review station. IMPAX Cardiovascular is vendor-neutral and delivers innovative features, including tightly integrated structured reporting, legacy equipment image management, and secure global access to diagnostic data.

Among the modalities integrated in IMPAX Cardiovascular are cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, cardiac CT angiography, electrophysiology and device therapy, and nuclear medicine, delivering a single integrated cardiovascular information solution designed to meet the needs of hospitals and healthcare facilities across the globe.

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