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Business overview
Agfa HealthCare, part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, provides advanced imaging and healthcare IT systems & services for clinical specialties and healthcare facility management. These systems and services span the entire healthcare enterprise, allowing facilities to improve efficiency and productivity while promoting advances in patient safety, medical outcomes, and quality.

Agfa HealthCare's solutions work across departmental disciplines to integrate information and to streamline the workflows and operations of hospitals, imaging centers, specialty clinics and other healthcare facilities. Imaging systems capture, process, and manage diagnostic images from a multitude of sources within and beyond the healthcare enterprise, integrating into a variety of workflows and systems. Specific Imaging & IT solutions serve several medical specialties and departments including radiology, laboratory, cardiology, orthopedics and Intensive Care Units. In addition, Agfa HealthCare is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which significant gains are made in effectiveness and efficiency. Many of the solutions can be implemented on a stand-alone basis and serve as the building blocks for comprehensive imaging & IT solutions.

Agfa HealthCare is a pioneer in both imaging science and IT, with an extensive portfolio encompassing hospital enterprise IT, RIS (Radiology Information System), PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System), reporting, cardiology, enterprise scheduling, decision support, advanced clinical applications, data storage, healthcare consulting, digital radiography, computed radiography and film.

Agfa HealthCare has earned the position of a leading provider of healthcare IT through its extensive range of system components and its longstanding experience in system integration and solving interface problems. Agfa HealthCare has over fifteen years experience in the development of PACS and RIS and was one of the first to commercialize this industry standard. These Radiology IT systems are installed in over 1000 hospitals worldwide. Additionally, Agfa HealthCare has Cardiology IT systems installed in more than 250 leading hospital and cardiac centers. ORBIS™, Agfa HealthCare's comprehensive hospital-wide IT system containing 80 configurable and fully integrated modules is installed in over 750 hospitals and is currently being rolled out in several countries. On average, half of all hospitals worldwide use Agfa HealthCare solutions.

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures, and markets analogue and digital systems for the graphic industry and for healthcare. Headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium, Agfa is active in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world and had revenues EUR 3.308 billion (USD 4.28 billion according to current exchange rates) in 2005

Agfa in Radiology
For over 100 years, Agfa has been offering solutions for imaging and information management. They work in close collaboration with clients to identify requirements and develop customized products. The wide range of solutions they offer includes classic X-ray films, hardcopy solutions, the most up-to-date solutions for Computed Radiography (CR) and Direct Radiography (DR), and fully integrated RIS/PACS and speech technology systems. Highly integrated IT applications, such as the IMPAX Radiology Desktop, allow radiologists to keep a clear, accessible, and structured overview of all relevant patient data and images so that they are able to concentrate on making a diagnosis that is as reliable and as complete as possible.

Agfa in Cardiology
With IMPAX for cardiology, Agfa offers solutions that are specifically tailored to the needs of cardiology departments. These solutions manage all cardiology images and information, provide a more efficient workflow, and enable a faster turn around. IMPAX for cardiology can be seamlessly integrated with existing enterprise information system, which maximizes efficiency and data integrity.

The joint solution offered by Agfa and the recently acquired Heartlab allows for the smooth integration of radiology and cardiology, the two most image intensive departments within hospitals. It enables information to flow more efficiently within the healthcare enterprise, and facilitates management of the Electronic Patient Record.

Agfa Heartlab Cardiovasular offers cardiologists a single point of access to clinical information systems and radiology results, either within their department or remotely. Because they have access to the most complete set of information available, in one file and from any desktop, they are able to make faster, more confident diagnostic decisions.

Agfa in Mammography
Agfa's long standing commitment to high quality breast imaging forms the basis of their women's care solutions. The Women's Care Solution encompasses the full range of analogue and digital imaging technologies, from acquisition to reporting. The Women's Care portfolio can be integrated into any radiology department and can provide a dedicated mammography solution for every need.

Agfa in Orthopaedics
Agfa offers flexible orthopaedic solutions for both hospitals and private practices that integrate with all existing modalities and information systems and can support the workflow of multi-site facilities. The benefits of Agfa's orthopaedic solutions include: improved access to digital images, flexibility in sharing information, and optimized office workflow. The result is cost savings and enhanced patient care. Agfa's digital orthopaedic solutions cover image acquisition, archiving and transmission, viewing and pre-operative planning, and image distribution.

IMPAX ES for orthopaedics integrates highly functional surgical planning tools that address all major aspects of orthopaedic surgical planning. It is an open system which has the ability to import, display, and archive DICOM and other image formats. An important feature of the IMPAX ES for orthopaedics system is an extensive library containing12,000 templates, which come from 42 different manufacturers, of body parts, including for hip, knee, elbow, hand, and shoulder.

Agfa in healthcare IT
Agfa enables healthcare providers to improve clinical outcomes and patient care at a lower cost through the combination of ORBIS and IMPAX.

ORBIS, developed by GWI and used daily by over 400,000 hospital employees, is an enterprise-wide IT platform and suite of applications, which integrate all administrative and clinical data within a hospital.

The ORBIS platform and its unique workflow and information management capabilities contains over 70 modules that can be used to build and customize the system at the point of care, according to each hospital's changing needs. The clinical depth of the workflow driven IMPAX systems can be seamlessly integrated in ORBIS. Tangible benefits of this comprehensive approach are increased decision support systems for treatment and decreased duration of hospital stays.

An environment where diagnosis and procedures have to be recorded, findings and therapy results documented, instructions, issued and work assigned has resulted in an increasingly patient-centric approach to healthcare management. This approach is supported by the holistic system ORBIS offers, which blends clinical and administrative processes.