Agfa HealthCare Announces 28 New Healthcare IT Customers in Germany

Agfa HealthCareAgfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that it has signed 28 new customers' agreements in Germany for its leading healthcare IT solutions ORBIS, IMPAX and HYDMedia in the first quarter of 2010.

In Germany, new ORBIS HIS/CIS contracts were concluded with, amongst others, the Schön Klinik Harthausen in Bad Aibling, Klinik Feldafing, Rechbergklinik Bretten, Fürst-Stirum-Klinik Bruchsal, the Asklepios Krankenhäusern Burglengenfeld, Nabburg, Oberviechtach, the Diakonie Klinikum Kassel as well as the Kreiskrankenhaus Schmalkalden. Agfa HealthCare's hospital-wide IT solution, ORBIS, manages and monitors all patient-oriented processes: medical, nursing, administrative and business.

ORBIS enhances the quality of patient care and provides fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and data. Accurate real-time patient data and histories will be available to authorized nursing, technical and medical staff, allowing for quicker and better diagnoses and treatments.

A large group of new customers has also selected to install IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), the company's leading image and information management solution, designed to help streamline enterprise workflow and deliver increased efficiency and productivity to hospital and care facilities. New customers include the Klinikum Stuttgart at four of its locations, the Schön Klinik Hamburg-Eilbeck, the Klinikum Kirchheim-Nürtingen in Nürtingen, the Behandlungszentrum Vogtareuth, the Bezirksklinikum Mainkofen in Deggendorf, the St. Marienkrankenhaus and St. Annastift in Ludwigshafen, as well as the Asklepios Klinik Bad Oldeslohe.

Additionally, Agfa HealthCare also concluded several large contracts for its Document Management System (DMS) HYDMedia, including with the Diakonie Klinikum Stuttgart, the Klinikum Emden, the Katholischen Klinikum Duisburg as well as with the Saarland-Heilstätten GmbH. HYDMedia enables the archiving of medical information such as diagnoses, radiology results, microfilms and clinical and administrative documentation. This particular solution has been developed to support and enhance hospital information management on all levels, including Hospital, Clinical and Laboratory Information Systems (HIS/CIS/LIS) as well as patient, administrative and financial information.

"Agfa HealthCare's strong market presence has once again been re-enforced by the arrival of 28 new customers, and this success confirms that our strategy is the right one," says Winfried Post, General Manager Agfa HealthCare D-A-CH, "We look forward to a fruitful commercial relationship with these new customers, today, tomorrow and in the future."

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About Agfa
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 printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare) and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,032 million Euro in 2008.

About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990’s. The HealthCare division has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2008 were 1,223 million Euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfa.com/healthcare.

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