Software Developed for Convergence of Images and Clinical Data through Integrated Lesion Follow-up

The software, which will be available later in 2008, allows the clinician to focus on the monitoring of the stenosis in a time-longitudinal view, with all relevant data and images in one view, rather than being required to upload the separate studies, as is currently the standard.

Agfa Healthcare (Mortsel, Belgium), a leading provider of information technology- (IT)-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging systems, presented its latest solution for lesion follow-up at EuroPCR, held in Barcelona, Spain from May 13-16, 2008. The solution, shown for the first time, will be part of the company's leading Impax Cardiovascular for integrated data and image management in cardiology in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and will allow clinicians to focus on the lesion follow-up history.

"The solution is an integral part of the company's drive towards the convergence of images and clinical data,” stated Dr. Ciprian Albu, medical director of Agfa HealthCare for Cardiology. "Agfa HealthCare is the first to achieve a full integration of the image follow-up as part of the overall clinical follow-up of any procedures. This turns the post procedure monitoring of coronary lesions into a more time efficient process, reducing the need to sift through unrelated data.”

The new feature will be incorporated into Agfa HealthCare's Impax Cardiovascular, a solution with integrated multi-modality and multi-lingual cardiovascular information management providing a consolidated view of all cardiology and radiology images within a single review station. The software is vendor-neutral and has innovative features, including tightly integrated structured reporting, legacy-equipment-image management, and secure global access to diagnostic data.

Among the modalities integrated in Impax Cardiovascular are cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, cardiac CT angiography, electrophysiology, device therapy, and nuclear medicine, providing a single integrated cardiovascular information system designed to meet the needs of hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide.


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