Software Developed for Image-Enabled Longitudinal Patient Records from Community Hospitals to Health Information Exchanges

An imaging clinical information system (ICIS) is a secure, single patient view of imaging data across all clinical applications. With enterprise imaging access, healthcare organizations can now meet the Imaging Results Accessibility menu objective of meaningful use (MU) stage 2 and advance health information exchange (HIE) approaches.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium) recently reported participation in the EMC (Hopkinton, MA, USA) Select program, enabling customers to purchase Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS through EMC Select. With the growing need to provide enterprise-wide access to all images, regardless of where created or stored, healthcare organizations can now utilize Agfa HealthCare’s enterprise imaging and clinical workflow solutions with EMC Atmos, EMC Isilon, EMC VNX, and EMC VMAX arrays.

Workflow efficiencies and images in context with patient information help healthcare providers make more informed healthcare decisions. The EMC Select program makes it simpler for organizations to acquire pretested, third-party “solution completers” that can be bought with EMC hardware, software, and services. Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS helps healthcare organizations, including HIEs, to go beyond legacy image management, distribution, and vendor-neutral archiving (VNA) technology to attain full enterprise image access.

Combined, Agfa ICIS and EMC infrastructure products create workflow efficiencies and provide images within the framework of patient information, helping healthcare providers to make more informed care decisions. The EMC Select program will offer Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS platform, which allows the workflow, capture, storage, exchange, and access of medical imaging information in electronic medical record (EMR) and HIE environments. The platform will also provide an enterprise next-generation VNA, Xero web-based image viewer and migration services.

“Today’s healthcare providers are looking for solutions beyond electronic medical records to address how medical images and their associated data are captured, stored, viewed, shared, and accessed,” said Lenny J. Reznik, director of enterprise imaging information North America, Agfa HealthCare. “Agfa HealthCare’s ICIS platform provides healthcare organizations of any size with comprehensive image management regardless of where the images were created or are stored. As a member of the EMC Select program, Agfa HealthCare’s depth of experience in clinical image and system integration with EMC infrastructure products will help our customers save money while meeting ever increasingly complex clinical and regulatory requirements.”

“Agfa HealthCare’s advanced medical imaging management solution combined with EMC infrastructure products delivers customers the highest levels of performance, availability, security, and virtualization-all requirements to meet the demands of imaging departments,” said Don Lamburn, director, EMC Select Program. “We are pleased to have Agfa HealthCare join the EMC Select Program.”

EMC Select is currently only available in the United States.

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