Image and Report Viewer Requires Only an Internet Connection

A "zero footprint” medical image and report viewer has been developed to provide access to medical imaging information for clinicians at any point of care. The solution requires no downloads of client application software or web application frameworks, thereby providing ready availability of imaging information to clinicians, independent of network bandwidth or operating system.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium; Agfa HealthCare), a provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology (IT) solutions, announced that Impax Data Center Viewer powered by Xero is now available in the United States and was on display at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Atlanta, GA, USA, in March 2010.

Working in conjunction with the Impax Data Center, Agfa HealthCare's enterprise medical imaging repository, the Xero technology allows for local retrieval and viewing of images and reports from multiple departments and electronic health records (EHRs). Its standards-based interface and powerful image processing provide ubiquitous access to imaging information, including Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) data types, DICOM-encapsulated PDFs, DICOM-structured reports, and images encoded in a wide variety of DICOM-supported formats.

Agfa HealthCare's Xero technology, a Web 2.0 platform, uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to allow users to dynamically retrieve and view text and image information in the user's Web browser. The Data Center Viewer converts images and content for display in a browser without requiring any client software installation.

"The Xero technology allows clinicians to ‘visualize' the EHR by incorporating reliable access to images, helping hospitals and healthcare facilities transform patient care,” said Lenny J. Reznik, Agfa HealthCare's director of enterprise imaging and information. "Impax Data Center and its unique Xero technology make image storage and visualization a seamless part of the EHR while bringing a patient's imaging record into the healthcare enterprise.”

Hospitals and healthcare facilities will appreciate the cost-effectiveness of Agfa HealthCare's viewers, powered by Xero. They require no user site maintenance due to its lack of client software and desktop deployment. The Xero technology is also easily adaptable by staff and typically requires very little to no training.

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and sophisticated systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities.

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