Agfa Gevaert : HealthCare to showcase clinical Portal in North America, the next step in a “gateway to integrated care”

- Portal supports the exchange of images and information for care providers and patients to enhance collaboration. - Includes native mobile interfaces for Google Android® and Apple iPhone® mobile digital devices, for "anywhere, anytime" access. - Provides an overview of information and actions that can help enhance operational efficiency while improving the overall patient experience.

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will be launching its new clinical Portal in North America, which will offer care providers with an easy-to-integrate and -use solution for image and results delivery. The Agfa HealthCare Portal gives a patient-centric overview of information from different sources, to different stakeholders in the patient's care, inside or outside the hospital. It will also provide a comprehensive road map running from the Portal itself, to true integrated care and the electronic health record (EHR).

Web-enabled platform and native mobile functionality
By providing a framework for image and result delivery, the Agfa HealthCare Portal will support an exchange of key information. Health information can be stored, retrieved and shared among patients, Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) and players within a community, region, state, country or throughout the world. The Portal will also support CCD (Continuity of Care Document) and CCR (Continuity of Care Record) standards.
A web-enabled software platform, the Portal can be accessed and used from a desktop computer or a mobile device, with native mobile interfaces for Google Android and Apple iPhone devices. The Portal can be installed at the hospital, or can be hosted by Agfa HealthCare for the hospital, with a service level agreement (SLA). Vendor-neutral, it can use standards-based communication to integrate to third party EHR or other systems, to aggregate information.

Patient and Care Provider views enhance loyalty and collaboration
The Agfa HealthCare Portal will offer two distinct user views: the Patient View and the Care Provider View.
With the Patient View, patients can look at their own images, results and other aggregated information (e.g. labs); share them securely with another doctor (for a second opinion) or a caregiver; and upload information from a CD or even a 'medical selfie'. By empowering and satisfying patients, the Portal will also support the hospital to increase patient loyalty and to attract new patients.
The Care Provider View includes all of those functionalities, plus lab results access. It enhances collaboration amongst caregivers, including referring physicians.

Step-by-step to integrated care and the EHR
"Integrated care is becoming a reality, and Agfa HealthCare's Portal is, in a way, a gateway to the EHR," says Joerg Schwarz, Global Business Development Director at Agfa HealthCare. "It already offers hospitals considerable cost savings and organizational advantages, such as reducing redundant testing. But it is also part of a broader vision and road map for the future."
Joost Felix, Enterprise Solution Manager at Agfa HealthCare adds,: "We developed the Portal using the knowledge and experience Agfa HealthCare has built up with proven solutions that share images and other data. Now, we are extending that reach beyond the hospital walls, to eventually integrate all providers in healthcare delivery. Ultimately, the Portal will support a true integrated care model that engages patients and all their caregivers, embeds care plans and workflow, and enables decision support and preventive care."

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