Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with the Academisch Medisch Centrum (Academic Medical Center Amsterdam - AMC) in The Netherlands to upgrade its existing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and install a Radiology Information System (RIS) and Nuclear Information System (NIS). To support the University Hospital’s regional care requirements, the company has also signed an agreement for the installation of its IMPAX Data Center. Agfa HealthCare’s solutions were selected after an extensive review process involving five vendors and an independent ICT advisory consultancy.

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Agfa-Gevaert has been selected by Accenture to provide digital radiology imaging management solutions to the North East and East clusters in England as part of Accenture’s work for the National Health Service’s Connecting for Health (CfH) program. The imaging services Agfa will provide include Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR).