Agfa HealthCare Launches Healthcare Document Management System in the UK

Agfa HealthCareAgfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, is launching HYDMedia, its leading Document Management System (DMS) for healthcare organizations, to the UK market. HYDMedia is an IT solution that enables healthcare facilities to digitally archive healthcare information including all paper-based documents, laboratory data and diagnostic images to provide a single view of the clinical and administrative record. All records are stored using a patient context and are therefore easily displayed within a case or episode, or via specialty or document type if preferred.

Digitization offers more efficient record archiving
Healthcare has always been, and remains one of the most document intensive industries. Because files are kept on every patient treated at a hospital, tens of millions of pages of paper-based archives plus associated attachments are created and are often housed across multiple buildings or sites. By digitizing these archives, healthcare organizations are able to reduce the space and expense needed to store such information over often variable and extensive periods of time. Digitization further enables administrators and clinicians to call up and file these documents quickly via a single web-based portal, while enterprise-wide content management solutions make data recovery possible in case of a disaster, like fire or flood, securing critical information that would normally would have been lost in paper format.

HYDMedia brings healthcare archiving into the 21st century
"Hospitals around the UK are, even today, still faced with paper-based archives so extensive that they often require multiple storage buildings to house them. Not to mention the fact that specific measures have to be taken to safeguard and manage these records - a significant cost and risk," states Grant Witheridge General Manager of Agfa HealthCare UK. "Agfa HealthCare's HYDMedia Document Management System helps hospitals move their information management into the 21st century by enabling organizations to not only save space, but also to improve overall retrieval time and improve disaster recovery, enabling a smoother and more efficient workflow. The appropriate documents and images can be accessed easily via a single web-based portal meaning that disparate islands of information no longer exist resulting in a content management platform that meets the needs of healthcare."

Proven solution in over 300 facilities
Since its inception in the Agfa HealthCare enterprise informatics portfolio, HYDMedia has been in use in over 300 hospital facility locations across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. HYDMedia is offered either as part of Agfa HealthCare's hospital and clinical IT system ORBIS, its leading image management and storage solution IMPAX Data Center, or as a stand-alone solution. The specialist system has been developed to support and enhance hospital information management on all levels, such as Hospital, Clinical, Laboratory and Radiology Information Systems (EPR/CIS/LIS/RIS) as well as patient, administrative and financial information.

HYDMedia is developed to maintain the integrity of the scanned documents and enables access to these archived documents by multiple users, spread over different locations, at the same time.

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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world’s leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,755 million euro in 2009.

About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2009 were 1,178 million euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfahealthcare.com.

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