Image-Enabled EHR Now Features Cloud-Hosted Imaging Clinical Information System

An imaging clinical information system (ICIS) consolidates image capture, storage, exchange, and access through the electronic health record (EHR), providing enterprise-wide access and viewing capabilities.

Agfa HealthCare’s (Mortsel, Belgium) ICIS is now available as a cloud-based solution that provides true enterprise imaging data management. With options for organizations of all sizes, Agfa HealthCare has made image-enabled EHRs a reality, integrating record workflow, capture, storage, exchange, and access.

Anytime, anywhere data access supports health information exchange (HIE) connectivity across the medical imaging enterprise and the continuum of patient care. Designed on open standards, ICIS is a vendor-neutral platform that provides facilities and departments the ability to utilize existing legacy infrastructure to access a distinctively integrated and communicative data set. Agfa HealthCare Impax customers, similarly, can also integrate with the company’s line of Impax regional and departmental solutions, including Xero technology and Impax radiology information system (RIS), picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and reporting features have been designed to realize operational efficiencies and develop a unified view of the patient.

“We’re excited about what ICIS is doing to advance medical imaging, and how it fits into healthcare delivery of the future,” said Lenny J. Reznik, director of enterprise imaging and information for Agfa HealthCare. “We’ve taken imaging data out of disconnected silos and made cloud-based connectivity attainable, which ultimately increases ROI [return on investment] and improves the delivery of patient care.”

Electronically managing radiology operations from end-to-end, the Impax RIS system encompasses patient registration, worklist generation, medical reporting, transcription, and business intelligence, integrating key elements of medical imaging workflow
The fully embedded Impax Reporting system provides radiologists with the image, data, and reporting tools they need to streamline their reporting task and enable them to work more efficiently. Recently added are extended addendum workflows and customizable templates, along with more on the on-the-fly personalization of standard texts.

The Impax Mobile Worklist allows the technologist to be mobile within the hospital and maintain full tech workflow throughout the patient experience. From signing consent forms to real-time procedure status, the patient wait time will be greatly reduced while still maintaining a streamlined and integrated workflow within the Impax range of products.

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