Agfa HealthCare Introduces IMPAX Business Intelligence To Advance Improved Decision-Making And Operations

Provides real-time digital dashboards, reports, alerts and more, to be highlighted at RSNA 2010

This innovative Work In Progress is designed to aid healthcare administrators in their efforts to:

• Optimize the use of clinical, business, and administrative data
• Enhance efficiency, patient experience and competitiveness
• Analyze workflow in order to achieve greater patient and referring physician satisfaction

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces recently that it will showcase its Work In Progress IMPAX Business Intelligence solution at RSNA 2010. The system provides historical, current, and predictive views of radiology operations in the form of real-time dashboards, management reports and ad-hoc queries - all in a single browser window.

Turn data into knowledge for improving operations
IMPAX Business Intelligence is designed to fulfil the need of healthcare managers and care providers to get the maximum benefit from the combined clinical, business and administrative data available in IMPAX and all its modules, from RIS to reporting. Using data inside of IMPAX Business Intelligence Data Warehouse, a key component of IMPAX Business Intelligence, managers and care providers may improve the efficiency of their operations, achieve a high level of patient satisfaction, better understand their market and improve their competitiveness. The solution identifies trends and cost-saving opportunities as well as workflow bottlenecks which restrict efficiency.

Achieve results with solution design
Detailed management reports and statistics offer the possibility to dive deeper into data and make decisions based on well-defined information. The dashboard provides an executive view and online monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs). The easy-to-use ad hoc structured query tool requires little training and enables users to make advanced and complex queries, as well as generate reports. The notification system automatically sends alerts to designated users if a specific threshold value has been exceeded, for example if a patient has been waiting for more than 30 minutes.

Integrated solutions reach a new level
"With IMPAX Business Intelligence, Agfa HealthCare is helping customers who are facing increased pressure to be more efficient," comments Al Dyer, Imaging Informatics Global Business Manager, Agfa HealthCare. "Our customers tell us they need to understand cost saving opportunities and IMPAX Business Intelligence is being designed to meet their needs.

"For example, the dashboard can provide an overview of the expected workload or the patient waiting times, while management reports provide a detailed view of referral patterns. With this information, clinicians and managers can base their workflow and business decisions on real-time statistical data, monitoring and measuring performance to ultimately streamline radiology operations and meet goals."

IMPAX Business Intelligence contributes to demonstrating Meaningful Use of clinical data through its ability to provide timely access to process and workflow data, deliver measures that help demonstrate improved health outcome possibilities, deliver measures that demonstrate greater cost effectiveness opportunities and support the setting up of processes designed to help managers proactively improve data quality and data integrity over time.

While the solution is currently focussed on business intelligence for the radiology department, it will be expanded to other departments in future versions.

See these solutions at Agfa HealthCare in Booth #8336, North Hall at RSNA 2010. To arrange a personal demonstration of our Imaging Excellence solutions, please contact us atsalesinfo@agfa.com.

About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analog 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 2,755 million euro in 2009.

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 2009 were 1,178 million eur. For more information, visit www.agfahealthcare.com.

SOURCE: Agfa HealthCare