Agfa Gevaert : At SIRM 2016, Agfa HealthCare showcases how it innovates to help hospitals meet today’s healthcare challenges
September 08, 2016 at 08:07 am EDT
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Mortsel, Belgium
September 8, 2016 2:00 PM CET
- Solutions support the activities of healthcare professionals and improve diagnostic confidence. - They are part of a portfolio that demonstrates Agfa HealthCare's commitment to empowering the delivery of high quality, efficient and cost-effective medical care. - Proven Agfa HealthCare solutions are present in more than half the hospitals around the world.
As a leader in diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, Agfa HealthCare continually innovates, using state-of-the-art technology to support the activities of healthcare professionals and to improve diagnostic confidence. At SIRM 2016, in Naples, Italy from 15-18 September, Agfa HealthCare will demonstrate how its proven solutions - present in more than half of the hospitals around the world - meet the specific needs of both healthcare providers and patients, with a focus on Integrated Care, Enterprise Imaging and Digital Radiography.
Adding value along the care continuum
With its uniquely deep and diverse expertise, Agfa HealthCare develops solutions that support hospitals and caregivers to meet today's challenges.
Its Integrated Care portfolio enables hospitals to provide a single solution offering web-based access to individuals' health information in a 'smart' way, for both care professionals and the patients themselves. Information from any source becomes available 'anywhere, anytime', including on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, etc.
Converge, collaborate, share, perform, comply, care: Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging offers a host of tools and functions that enhance and speed up image acquisition and retrieval, optimize system efficiency and performance, support patient care and safety goals, and allows true collaboration across departments, hospitals or regions.
Digital Radiography provides hospitals with a very broad range of advantages that enhance patient care, productivity and value. Agfa HealthCare's innovative Direct Radiography (DR) solutions, all empowered by MUSICA image processing software, offer hospitals market-leading productivity and image quality benefits. Leading edge technology also supports hospitals' objectives to control and reduce patient radiation dose - a goal shared by all healthcare providers. Finally, Agfa HealthCare makes technology accessible, by developing high performance functions and extensive configuration options that are nonetheless easy and quick to use.
'Building on over 140 years experience in healthcare imaging, Agfa HealthCare develops solutions that add value all along the patient care continuum, that match how healthcare provider work, and that meet real needs,' explains Silvio Salvatore Selvaggio, Country Manager of Agfa HealthCare Italy. 'At SIRM 2016, visitors can see for themselves how this comes together to help them achieve their own objectives.'
Visit us at booth 545, SIRM 2016, 15-18 September, Mostra d'Oltremare, Naples, Italy. You can also schedule an appointment to speak with us at the event on http://global.agfahealthcare.com/goodies/italy/#scrivici
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Agfa-Gevaert NV is one of the world leaders in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of imaging systems and products. Net sales break down by sector of activity as follows:
- 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.
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