Imaging Solutions Enhance the Electronic Medical Record

State-of-the-art imaging technologies assist the capture, exchange, storage, and access to medical imaging information, helping to optimize patient healthcare.

The new Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium) IMPAX imaging solutions are designed to assist healthcare organizations address the need to extend the electronic medical record (EMR) to include support for medical images and related information, providing physicians with point-of-care access to the complete patient record and improving communication between care providers.

The IMPAX Data Center Viewer addresses one of the most common issues facing healthcare today: extending the EMR to include support for all medical images and related information and providing physicians with point-of-care (POC) access to the longitudinal patient record. The innovative viewer embeds image content into the EMR and renders it accessible by those who need it, using a wide variety of browsers and networks on their office or home computers. The zero-download, Internet browser-based viewer provides ubiquitous access to imaging information regardless of the wide variance of platforms and administrative rules.

The IMPAX Exchange is a work in progress solution that provides secure, reliable transfer and localization of patient studies among hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Providers no longer need to worry about lost or damaged CDs and DVDs, the mishandling of which can result in treatment delays, higher costs, and squandered staff resources. IMPAX Exchange is designed to optimize productivity and efficiency at both the originating and receiving site, thanks to an integrated dashboard that notifies of successful transmission.

The IMPAX Business Intelligence solution is designed to provide historical, current, and predictive views of operations in the form of real-time dashboards, management reports, and ad-hoc queries against an IMPAX data warehouse - all in a single browser. For example, the dashboard can provide an overview of the expected workload or the patient waiting times, and management reports can provide a detailed view on the department activity. The information provided will enable physicians and hospital management to base radiology-related decisions on real-time statistical data, to monitor and measure performance, and ultimately streamline radiology operations built on goals and targets.

The IMPAX Cardiovascular (CV) solution supports clinicians with a single, integrated cardiovascular information system targeted at cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, cardiac computerized tomography (CT), nuclear cardiology, and electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Clinicians using IMPAX CV experience flexibility from features focused on workflow, integration, and connectivity, including structured reports, multimodality cardiovascular image analysis, and vendor-neutral ECG management.

"TheIMPAX Data Center medical imaging repository and its Image Viewer … provides the performance, security, and integration needed to streamline EHR and medical imaging needs," said Lenny Reznik, director of enterprise imaging and information at Agfa HealthCare USA. "We are convinced that these solutions will help providers accelerate EHR adoption and contribute to the efficient delivery of patient care."

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