Agfa-Gevaert Group
Agfa HealthCare expands multi-site agreement with Basque Healthcare Service
Osakidetza facilities in Spain extends agreement to include 15 additial
sites and a central image repository
* Press release
* Mortsel, Belgium / Vienna, Austria
* March 06, 2010 10:00
(ECR 2010, Booth #103) Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of
diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced today that
it has expanded its agreement with the Basque Healthcare Service's
Osakidetza facilities in Spain to extend its IMPAX Picture and
Archiving and Communications System (PACS) to a further 15 sites, in
addition to the 28 facilities it currently serves. To enable all
facilities to easily access and share diagnostic images and related
data, Osakidetza will also install Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Data
Center, a solution which manages diagnostic image access and
distribution across the enterprise.
Osakidetza, an organization belonging to the Basque Healthcare
Department of the Basque Government, manages 18 hospitals, over 300
primary care centers, employs around 5.300 healthcare professionals
and a staff of 25.000. Combined they support a population over 2
million. It is the region's leading care provider. Agfa HealthCare was
originally selected in late 2007 to install its IMPAX 6 PACS, a
centralized RIS, 59 Computed Radiography solutions, and 52 diagnostic
imaging printers across 5 Hospitalsand 23 Primary Care Centers in the
Basque Country, northernSpain.
The expansion of IMPAX to an additional 15 small and medium sites will
account for a 20% growth in Osakidetza's total annual digital studies.
Today over 75% of its Radiologists are making active use of IMPAX, and
this number is expected to grow in the near future. Central to
enabling the availability and sharing of diagnostic images will be the
company'sIMPAXDataCenter, which creates a longitudinal patient imaging
record by integrating and linking multi-facility, multi-departmental,
and multi-specialty imaging data.IMPAXDataCenter is a massively
scalable imaging management solution designed to capture, manage,
archive, and visualize multi-facility, multi-departmental, and
multi-specialty imaging and image related patient information.
TheIMPAXDataCenter's use will, over time, be expanded across the
region to form the backbone for the regional image repository.
"During lasttwo years,Osakidetza has dramatically improved the quality
of its Radiology Systems", states Martín Begoña, CIO at Osakidetza.
"With the support from Agfa HealthCare and its leading solutions, we
will have 43 sites running on PACS and a data center to enable us to
function as an integrated, united organization. It is a major
achievement."
"Osakidetza is a primary example of how regional care is increasingly
staking its claim in Europe" states Hans Vandewyngaerde, Vice
President Europe at Agfa HealthCare, "The integration of Osakidetza's
sites, supported by a data center to enable the efficient sharing of
images is a cornerstone to the region's strategy to improve the
overall delivery of care to its population. It is also a primary
example of an increasingly growing and successful regional care
approach inEurope."
"We have worked extensively with the Basque organization to ensure
that the single and structure workflow we have provided through our
solutions was not only technically sound, but was built on the real
needs of the clinicians that use them, every day" adds Sergio Irayzoz
Del Castillo, responsible for Healthcare IT at Agfa HealthCare
inSpain. "Combined, these two requirements enable an improved
efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of care."
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