Clinical Information Center Provides Imaging Data Access for 4,500 Desktops

An imaging clinical information system is helping to support the research and informed decision support needs of a major US hospital.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium) announces that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston, MA, USA) has expanded its relationship with the vendor, adding the Impax Data Center solution family. A longstanding Agfa HealthCare customer, MGH also intends to upgrade to Impax picture archiving and communication system (PACS) version 6.5, supporting the need for timely and informed decision-making through fast access and enhanced ability to share information at the radiologist desktop.

With extensive, global experience working with radiologists and complex healthcare information technology (IT) environments such as MGH, Agfa HealthCare understands the role of medical imaging in the enterprise and has created an imaging clinical information system (ICIS) to address clinical and IT requirements. The system, built upon the Impax Data Center platform, allows clinicians to capture, store, exchange, and access imaging information securely and independent of location, on a variety of web-enabled devices.

“Agfa HealthCare designed our ICIS suite to provide more than just storage or a vendor neutral archive, but to make imaging an integral part of the electronic health record [EHR],” said Michael Green, president and CEO, Agfa HealthCare, Americas region. “Our technologies have been developed to deliver the speed, functionality, and access that facilities like Massachusetts General Hospital need to support their research, decision support, and business intelligence needs.”

By upgrading to Agfa HealthCare’s Impax version 6.5 and the Impax Data Center, the system’s open application programming interface (API) and web services design will provide enhanced clinical information exchange between radiologists and clinicians. The Impax 6.5 provides Agfa HealthCare’s Xero viewer platform, a zero footprint enterprise-wide application that provides access to healthcare data.

Agfa HealthCare Impax solutions will support MGH’s imaging requirements across its 12 locations, which use a total of 145 modalities delivering imaging studies to 220 PACS workstations for clinical and diagnostic viewing. Facilitating enterprise-wide access to multidisciplinary imaging data, 4,500 desktops across the facility will be enabled for image access.

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