Agfa Gevaert : At HIMSS16, Agfa HealthCare highlights its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System enabling a clinically rich ‘ visual healthcare infographic’ of each patient.
February 29, 2016 at 10:05 am EST
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Mortsel, Belgium/Greenville, SC
February 29, 2016 4:00 PM CET
- Complimentary to Enterprise Imaging Suite, ECM enables the sharing of medical images and documents with existing clinical systems - The system, including consultancy and implementation services, can also be deployed standalone or in combination with the ECP-EHR/EMR to facilitate both clinical and administrative workflows - Already in use by more than 420 customers worldwide, Agfa's ECM is now available in the United States
(HIMSS16, Booth #2647) Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system and Enterprise Imaging platform will be on display at the HIMSS16 Annual Conference & Exhibition, March 1 - 3, 2016 in Las Vegas.
HIMSS16 marks one year since the launch of Agfa HealthCare's ECM system, which features improved workflow capabilities that facilitate the capture, archiving, access, and sharing of any type of data object, including paper files, forms, questionnaires, consents, insurance claims, etc., across the hospital enterprise. Customer implementation of the ECM has proven that the product is a key component in a comprehensive IT strategy that allows health systems to reduce or eliminate physical storage by digitally archiving medical documents within the EMR and administrative workflows.
Agfa HealthCare's ECM is designed as a unique solution bringing together generic content management, clinical content management, process management, long-term archiving, business and document management workflows, and specific functionalities, as well as a special design for the clinical environment. Its integrated scanning modules help organizations to be paperless by integrating existing paper documents in their IT environments. Due to its standards-based architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments and many interfaces - also designed especially for the medical environment - the Agfa HealthCare ECM system offers comprehensive interoperability with IT systems, including a wide range of clinical and administrative information systems. Also, thanks to its compliance to IHE-XDS framework, the Agfa HealthCare ECM system can be integrated in large and complex environments.
Agfa's ECM system supports the organization's Enterprise Imaging continuity of care approach by enabling the sharing of full medical images and documents with existing clinical and administrative systems to help enable a clinically rich 'visual healthcare infographic' of each patient. The ECM allows the care facility to realize multiple benefits, including reduced physical archiving space, easy web-based information retrieval across the enterprise providing continuity of care, and reduced risk of patient information being lost or destroyed. The ECM will centralize, guide and display even the most complex administrative documentation processes under data protection in and outside healthcare enterprises.
Bill Corsten, Regional President, NA, Agfa Healthcare, stated, 'Agfa's Enterprise Content Management system is key within our commitment to providing enterprise-wide, care-centric solutions. Even with the rise of EMRs, many health systems still have large amounts of paper-based patient information and documents that are essential to ongoing care, but are difficult for care providers to access when they are needed most. Similar to our philosophy that all information needs to be archived and accessible within the EMR and in all administrative processes, we contend that all clinical and business content must also be readily available in the EMR in order for quality care to be delivered.'
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- Radiology solutions (36.9%). Agfa-Gevaert NV supplies radiology departments of hospitals all over the world with traditional X-ray film, hardcopy film and printers, digital radiography equipment and image processing software. Agfa's roots are in traditional medical imaging, but in today's healthcare market, digital radiography has become the dominant technology. All Agfa's digital radiography systems are offered with the company's leading MUSICA image processing software and its MUSICA workstation for image identification, acquisition and quality control;
- Digital Print & Chemicals (35.6%). Agfa-Gevaert NV supplies sign & display printing companies with a range of highly productive and versatile wide-format inkjet printers and dedicated inks, in addition to workflow software, cutting machines and inkjet media. Agfa produces classic film-based products, such as film for non-destructive testing and aerial photography, as well as microfilm and film for the production of printed circuit boards;
- HealthCare IT (21.6%). Agfa-Gevaert NV offers Imaging IT Solutions (The Enterprise Imaging platform creates a true imaging record for every patient, containing all possible images of the patient, regardless of the department and the facility that created them), Hospital IT Solutions (the leading Hospital Information System /Clinical Information System ORBIS, connects medical departments and administrative departments of hospitals into one virtual network), and Integrated Care Solutions (these solutions support collaboration across the borders of care organizations and medical disciplines and enable hospitals to actively engage with all stakeholders in the expanded care process, including physicians, informal care-givers and patients) ;
- Offset solutions (5.9%). Agfa-Gevaert NV is a leading supplier to the printing industry, offering innovative and reliable solutions. Commercial, newspaper and packaging printers around the globe rely on Agfa for the most extensive range of integrated solutions, from computer-to-plate systems with digital offset plates over color management and workflow optimization software to pressroom chemicals.
Agfa Gevaert : At HIMSS16, Agfa HealthCare highlights its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System enabling a clinically rich ‘ visual healthcare infographic’ of each patient.
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