Medical Imaging Repository Enables Access to Longitudinal EHRs
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By HospiMedica International staff writers Posted on 29 Dec 2009 |
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Image: The Agfa IMPAX Data Center (Photo courtesy Agfa Healthcare)
A unified, patient-centric longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data center streamlines clinicians' access to medical images and results.
The Agfa IMPAX Data Center delivers enterprise visualization of clinical imaging data, providing the EHR with a centralized clinical imaging repository. Interoperability is achieved by adhering to and leveraging the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) technical framework and supporting a vendor-neutral view of previously fragmented healthcare information. An added benefit is the solution's efficient information technology (IT) infrastructure, which can contribute to lower cost for information-driven EHRs, health information exchanges (HIEs), and comparative research.
The IMPAX Data Center solution also helps providers achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentives available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), addressing 13 specific ARRA requirements, including clinical decision support at the point of care, medical device interoperability, multimedia support, dynamic and ad-hoc quality reports, protection of sensitive healthcare information, implementation of one clinical decision rule, and electronic exchange of clinical information. The Agfa IMPAX Data Center is a product of Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Data Center integrates diagnostic imaging and data silos throughout an enterprise, allowing a single point of integration for the EHR, as well as a single point of access for specialists and referring and primary care physicians,” said Don Dennison, director of eHealth and regional health business at Agfa HealthCare. "Providers have an unprecedented opportunity to view patient data in one integrated solution in their EHR or EMR (Electronic Medical Record).”
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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) technical framework
The Agfa IMPAX Data Center delivers enterprise visualization of clinical imaging data, providing the EHR with a centralized clinical imaging repository. Interoperability is achieved by adhering to and leveraging the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) technical framework and supporting a vendor-neutral view of previously fragmented healthcare information. An added benefit is the solution's efficient information technology (IT) infrastructure, which can contribute to lower cost for information-driven EHRs, health information exchanges (HIEs), and comparative research.
The IMPAX Data Center solution also helps providers achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentives available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), addressing 13 specific ARRA requirements, including clinical decision support at the point of care, medical device interoperability, multimedia support, dynamic and ad-hoc quality reports, protection of sensitive healthcare information, implementation of one clinical decision rule, and electronic exchange of clinical information. The Agfa IMPAX Data Center is a product of Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Data Center integrates diagnostic imaging and data silos throughout an enterprise, allowing a single point of integration for the EHR, as well as a single point of access for specialists and referring and primary care physicians,” said Don Dennison, director of eHealth and regional health business at Agfa HealthCare. "Providers have an unprecedented opportunity to view patient data in one integrated solution in their EHR or EMR (Electronic Medical Record).”
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Agfa HealthCare
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) technical framework
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