Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Cardiovascular Solutions Deliver Heart And Vascular Diagnostics And Documentation

On display at RSNA 2010, features offer the efficiency and imaging tools clinicians expect for effective cardiology practice

• Comprehensive suite of cardiology imaging products providing clinicians access to studies from multiple modalities.
• Single point-of-access solution allows for clinical correlation of multimodality studies.
• Image and information management solutions that can be integrated into any organization's quality program.

(RSNA Booth #8336) Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, will display its suite of cardiology imaging products and give the radiology community an opportunity to experience cardiology and vascular imaging and reporting solutions that effectively consolidate information and offer clinicians a single point of access to studies from multiple modalities at RSNA 2010.

Multimodality suite with easy-to-use Cardiovascular Review Station
Agfa HealthCare's new IMPAX Cardiovascular (CV) Suite supports clinicians with a single, integrated cardiovascular information system targeted at cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, cardiac CT/CTA, nuclear cardiology and ECG data. The multimodality suite comes together for the cardiologist in the easy-to-use Cardiovascular Review Station. Demonstrations are offered to show how IMPAX CV's single point of access can put one toolkit at the cardiologist's fingertips.

Flexibility: features focused on workflow, integration and connectivity
Clinicians who use the IMPAX CV Suite experience flexibility from features focused on workflow, integration and connectivity, including structured reports, multimodality cardiovascular image analysis and vendor-neutral ECG management. At a time when providers struggle to find effective strategies to measure, monitor and report quality, IMPAX CV delivers a comprehensive suite of cardiovascular image and information management solutions that can be integrated into an organization's quality program.

Secure, anytime, anywhere access to the cardiovascular patient's record
Agfa HealthCare's cardiology solutions give clinicians the tools to support a diagnostic workflow. With a sharp focus on cardiology's imaging, workflow, and reporting needs, IMPAX CV provides clinicians with secure, anytime, anywhere management of the cardiovascular patient's record and fast access to cardiology information. The single point-of-access solution allows for clinical correlation of multimodality studies.

Agfa HealthCare's Cardiovascular Suite includes:

IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System: Offering automated ECG processing and storage, Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System enables access to ECG exams, facilitating clinicians' clinical decision-making while boosting productivity. Clinicians can display, edit, confirm, print and archive ECGs and make them part of the cardiology patient's Web-accessible record. IMPAX HeartStation's newly expanded capabilities now support 15-lead ECG and stress and Holter monitor store and view capability. Facilities will appreciate Agfa HealthCare's cost-effective approach to leveraging existing cart investments, while clinicians gain convenience from IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System's anywhere-anytime access.

IMPAX Cardiovascular Review Station Remote: Offering clinicians virtualization of the Cardiovascular Review Station (CRS), Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX CRS Remote provides clinicians with the freedom to view the CRS wherever they require access. Powered by Citrix XenDesktop over the hospital intranet or World Wide Web, CRS Remote allows clinicians to perform offline measurements, access modality-specific toolkits and interact with quantification programs via a single point of access. In the first phase of release, Agfa HealthCare's CRS Remote supports multimodality image review and reporting of cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound and nuclear cardiology. Also included in the echocardiography review is the Cardiovascular Measurement Tool, an offline measurement toolset. Additional features will be introduced in future phases.

IMPAX Cardiovascular for Cardiac CT/CTA: Combined with TeraRecon's cardiac CT-3D visualization (Work In Progress) *, IMPAX Cardiovascular for Cardiac CT/CTA offers visualization, measurement and reporting. Agfa HealthCare has created a fully integrated imaging and reporting solution that supports the Cardiac CT/CTA guidelines established by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). Clinicians can increase productivity while decreasing administrative time as they adhere to SCCT guidelines, and deliver patient care all within one unified solution.

IMPAX Radiology Integration: Offering enterprise-wide cardiology image management and reporting, IMPAX Radiology Integration delivers a cardiology image management and supporting solution that connects with modalities or information systems. Clinicians - cardiologists and radiologists - benefit from seamless, single sign-on access to cardiology and diagnostic information. By reviewing radiology and cardiology images and reports together, clinicians can more easily confer to make evidence-based diagnoses.

Agfa HealthCare's Adult Echo Image Review and Reporting: Agfa HealthCare's Echo Image Review and Reporting facilitates workflow and helps increase efficiency by providing access and distribution of echocardiography images and data. By emulating adult echo workflow with Agfa HealthCare's innovative, vendor-neutral offline measurement tool, the solution reduces analysis time on the cart, freeing the cart for use with other patients. Clinicians benefit from the comprehensive set of vendor-independent offline measurement analyses within the Cardiovascular Review Station and the ability to view updates on the Results Management (RM) measurement table as they directly populate the cardiovascular database. DICOM SR measurement importing is available for popular echo cart models from leading vendors, including Philips, Siemens, GE and Aloka.

IMPAX Vascular Ultrasound Review and Reporting: Designed for the vascular laboratory, Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Vascular Ultrasound delivers both imaging and tightly integrated structured reporting for non-invasive exams. DICOM SR measurement import is available for carts from Philips and Siemens. This IMPAX reporting module incorporates the standards established by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL). Compliance with standards can lead to increased reimbursements, supporting institution initiatives.

IMPAX Cardiac Catheterization Reporting: Focused on collecting clinical data during cardiac catheterizations, IMPAX Cardiac Catheterization Reporting transforms data into structured results. The outcome: standardized physician and nurse reporting with optimized workflow.

IMPAX Nuclear Cardiology: Clinicians can look forward to enhanced nuclear cardiology reporting from Agfa HealthCare. Vendor-neutral and compatible with most conventional nuclear cameras and qualitative analysis software, IMPAX Nuclear Cardiology helps nuclear cardiology facilities generate reports that support requirements of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL).The database incorporates elements required for this registry and accreditation, so as cardiologists create the structured reports that populate the database, essential data are included, resulting in a queriable database.

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 at salesinfo@agfa.com.

(*) Work In Progress, not available in Canada and the USA.

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 euro. For more information, visit www.agfa.com/healthcare

SOURCE: Agfa HealthCare