'Integration' is the Theme at EHI Live 2012 - Agfa HealthCare Showcases How to Free Data from Information Silos

Agfa HealthCareAgfa HealthCare is showcasing a range of products supporting collaboration and sharing of clinical data to deliver patient services at EHI Live 2012 in Birmingham. Under the umbrella theme of Insight. Delivered., the company highlights its growing portfolio of imaging and healthcare solutions designed to meet the administrative, clinical and image management requirements at the enterprise level across hospitals.

ORBIS, a proven EPR solution for healthcare organizations
ORBIS is already deployed in over 850 institutions across Europe with more than 500,000 daily users. Featured at the show will be the latest ORBIS developments to support UK working practices which include an integrated early warning score, out of hours hand-over and a new and improved nurse friendly assessment building tool. Alongside ORBIS' clinical 5 features, visitors will see new functionality such as our Mobile edition for ORBIS, created to accommodate flexible working practices for clinicians, supported on mobile devices such as the iPad and BlackBerry Playbook.

Explore smooth upgrade paths for enhanced functionality: PACS 2.0
Agfa HealthCare aims to offer a range of solutions to fit the needs of any healthcare enterprise, of any size. Agfa HealthCare will highlight some of these solutions at EHI Live 2012, such as IMPAX 6.5 combined with our XERO Technology Viewer, which offers an easy upgrade for existing customers, and easy implementation for new customers.

Enterprise imaging management solutions to overcome the challenges of modern healthcare
IMPAX Data Center, Agfa HealthCare's latest generation of storage agnostic and Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) also integrates with 3rd party systems and offers scalability and virtualization to centrally manage medical imaging studies and results. Tightly integrated XERO technology provides unified clinical viewing of images and reports across the enterprise and beyond via popular browsers without any additional client download.

Agfa HealthCare's ICIS (Imaging Clinical Information System) workflow-centric services platform makes all imaging data, from radiology as well as multi-disciplinary imaging, readily available to healthcare professionals across the enterprise. ICIS enables clinical return on investment by supporting the EHR with a proven, reliable comprehensive image management solution. Visitors are invited to learn more about the meaningful benefits to imaging departments, facilities, and regions delivered by proven ICIS services.

Put yourself in the picture with an image-enabled clinical portal
EHI Live 2012 will see Orion Health and Agfa HealthCare demonstrating a combined solution that will provide healthcare organisations with seamless access to the best unified view of clinical data and medical images - in a single, secure unified environment. The image-enabled clinical portal is based on two leading technologies: Orion Health's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Agfa HealthCare's Imaging Clinical Information System (ICIS).

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 2,948 million euro in 2010.

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 2010 were 1,180 million euro.

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