Agfa HealthCare demonstrates IMPAX™ Data Center at HIMSS 2007

Component of Agfa HealthCare’s Clinical Data Center unifies data from various clinical sources into a single, unified view

• Press release
• HIMSS (booth #6737) / New Orleans, US
• February 26, 2007 07:30

Agfa HealthCare today announces it is demonstrating the IMPAX™ Data Center at HIMSS 2007. The IMPAX Data Center is a conduit into Agfa HealthCare’s Clinical Data Center (CDC), a real-time database of all structured and unstructured data from different clinical sources, that presents a unified view of a single patient. IMPAX Data Center leverages a central bank of transactional and data services that can permit an Enterprise level of data and clinical content management. Agfa HealthCare’s CDC will allow clinically relevant data from disparate systems to be grouped and restructured so that healthcare practitioners can more easily access the data about their patients.

As a component of the Clinical Data Center, IMPAX Data Center provides management for all DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) images and related data elements. IMPAX Data Center helps solve archive and storage issues that require dynamic options for digital imaging and Enterprise data storage. IMPAX Data Center provides a set of demographic data along with a number that uniquely identifies each patient along the continuum of care. This means that IMPAX Data Center can manage multiple patient ID domains. All data that is stored in Agfa HealthCare's CDC is linked to this patient identifier as its primary key.

"IMPAX Data Center is patient-centric and content-aware and utilizes an open architecture for extensibility, giving healthcare facilities the freedom from being locked-in to any single vendor," said Lenny J. Reznik, Director of Enterprise Imaging and Information, Agfa HealthCare Corporation, Americas. "It provides fast storage and retrieval of data and images, and offers fault tolerance for business continuity and disaster recovery, continuously managing and monitoring itself for optimal system reliability."

IMPAX Data Center is a scalable and fault tolerant DICOM archive solution designed to store clinical DICOM data objects, including DICOM encapsulated non-imaging objects (such as waveforms, structured reports and PDFs). It consolidates data of disparate storage systems onto a single point of storage and caters to the needs of enterprise storage for large, multi-site and multi-facility healthcare domains. The solution is beneficial to healthcare providers in that it facilitates them to share patient data. More importantly, patients benefit from it as well, as their exams and the results of their exams are made available at every location in the Hospital Enterprise, in that way enhancing their care.