Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging Platform Selected by The University of Mississippi Medical Cente
Platform offers modular solution for broad range of needs for enterprise-wide image management
MORTSEL, BELGIUM/GREENVILLE, SC – August 30, 2016 —
- Enterprise Imaging consolidates imaging data from multiple service lines and provides secure access to a patient’s
medical images, in one view, accessible ‘anywhere, anytime’. - The agreement includes Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform, including Enterprise Imaging Vendor-Neutral Archive,
XERO® image viewer and Image Exchange. - A growing list of customers choose Agfa’s platform for its “more than a VNA” capabilities.
Agfa HealthCare recently signed an agreement with an additional academic medical center that will build its imaging management strategy on Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform. The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) will implement a comprehensive suite of software solutions from Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform, allowing the health system to consolidate medical images, hardware and storage, and enable clinicians to share access and visualize imaging data, no matter where they physically practice medicine. This functionality helps create an image-enhanced patient record that supports clinician decision-making, and sets the stage to better quality and value-based healthcare.
UMMC sought to upgrade and enhance a variety of medical imaging applications and functions across its five hospitals and related physician practices. After carefully researching product offerings and interoperability capabilities, UMMC determined that Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform would become the foundation for an imaging strategy that not merely captures images, but makes those images a true organizational asset.
Most importantly, Agfa’s solutions enable images to be securely made available across a geographically disparate health system. Point-of-care images are available in real-time, which is a significant benefit for a busy Trauma I hospital such as UMMC. Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging modular approach is attractive to health systems such as UMMC, as it allows for readily deployed enhancements in the future as required by the organization’s multi-specialty needs and strategy, targeted at specific clinical use cases and deployed at the hospital’s own pace
The Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging platform creates a comprehensive imaging ecosystem that enables images, from anywhere, to be available to all involved caregivers across the care continuum. For example, the Agfa HealthCare platform can make TAVR and echocardiograph imaging swiftly available across the enterprise. Not only does this support the fast-paced work of the trauma center, but it also supports the needs of the hospital’s transplant program
UMMC has contracted for the following Agfa solutions:
- Enterprise Imaging Vendor-Neutral Archive (VNA) – consolidates imaging data from multiple systems,
departments, facilities and vendors into a central clinical data foundation - Enterprise Imaging Exchange – allows fast, secure, reliable transfer of patient studies, without time-consuming
CDs or DVDs. - Web-based XERO® universal image viewer – provides secure access to DICOM and non-DICOM imaging data
from different departments and multiple sources, in one view, to anyone inside and outside of the hospital who needs it.
“The spirit of our relationship with UMMC is to assure their clinicians have swift access to clinical imaging and multimedia content to bring clinical value and gain efficiency across all care settings,” says Frank Pecaitis, Senior Vice President, North America Sales at Agfa HealthCare. “We are thrilled that UMMC selected us and in doing so recognized that Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform will enable them to lower cost by consolidating their IT infrastructure while making valuable clinical information an organizational asset to all necessary stakeholders.”
UMMC, located in Jackson, is the state’s only academic health science center. Three specialized hospitals on the Jackson campus include the only children’s hospital in Mississippi, a women and infants’ hospital, and a critical care hospital, along with the University Hospital. UMMC offers the only Level I trauma center, the only Level IV neonatal intensive care nursery, and the only organ transplant programs in the state. University Physicians, the faculty group practice of the School of Medicine, includes approximately 500 doctors who care for patients in locations around the state. UMMC includes two community hospitals, UMMC Holmes County and UMMC Grenada. Its annual budget of more than $1.6 billion represents 2 percent of the state’s economy.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world’s leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue 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
About UMass Memorial Health Care
UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts with more than 12,900 employees and 1,670 physicians, many of whom are members of UMass Memorial Medical Group. Their member hospitals and entities include Clinton Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital, Marlborough Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center and Community Healthlink, their behavioral health agency. With their teaching and research partner, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, their extensive primary care network and their cancer, diabetes, heart and vascular, and musculoskeletal programs, UMass Memorial delivers safe, high-quality and compassionate care. Call 855-UMASS-MD (855-862-7763) for all your health care needs. Visit umassmemorialhealthcare.org.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, present in one hospital out of two, is a leading provider of eHealth & Digital Imaging solutions. Care organizations in over 100 countries rely on Agfa HealthCare to optimize their efficiency and improve patient care.
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