Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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Agfa launch ORBIS EPR to UK market
Agfa HealthCare has launched its proven ORBIS electronic patient record system in the UK for the first time. The software is already used by 800 hospitals internationally. The system is Agfa’s most comprehensive hospital-wide clinical information system which delivers a complete electronic patient record as well as modules for scheduling, activity management and communication software. […]
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Nuffield Hospitals sign for Initiate EMPI
Initiate Systems has been awarded a contract to build an Enterprise Master Patient Index which will enable staff at Nuffield Hospitals around the country to integrate data from their existing systems and create a single record for each patient. As revealed by E-Health Insider in January, Nuffield Hospitals will have Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX 6.2 Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) […]
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Southend completes three-way integration with McKesson
Southend Hospital NHS Trust has implemented a new Radiology Information System enabling the hospital to complete three-way integration between the RIS, its Patient Administration System and its Picture Archiving and Communication System. The trust already had a McKesson TotalCARE PAS in place and wanted to upgrade its RIS to one that would integrate with this […]
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Agfa delivers PACS to the private sector
Agfa Healthcare have announced two new contracts with private hospital chains to install their Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software, IMPAX 6.2. The Belgian-based image-specialists have confirmed that they will be delivering the PACS system along with other medical imaging systems to both the Nuffield Hospitals group and the Classic Hospitals group. Nuffield Hospitals […]
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Cardiff implements city-wide PACS from Agfa
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust has announced it has gone live with an Agfa PACS solution that allows it to transfer images between its nine sites in and around the Welsh capital. Tom Henderson, PACS manager for the trust, explained: "In a trust of this size, it can sometimes be quite difficult to ensure that […]
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European ‘Connect-a-thon’ tests interoperability
Over 60 healthcare software companies and organisations from all over the world have gathered together in Spain to test the interoperability of their systems. A total of 700 combinations of system and 1600 tests were carried out over four days in Barcelona in a yearly European ‘Connect-a-thon’, organised by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise in Europe […]
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GE signs to provide PACS in North West and West Midlands
Computer Sciences Corporation has today announced that it has reached agreement with NHS Connecting for Health to sign with GE Healthcare and Healthcare Software Systems to provide picture archiving and communications systems and radiology information systems to the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS. Through NHS National Programme for IT prime contractor Fujitsu, GE […]
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Agfa launches mobile version of Impax 6.0 PACS
Agfa has launched an “ultra thin” mobile version of its Impax 6.0 picture archiving and communications system (PACS) which is due to be deployed in NHS trusts in North-east and Eastern England. The mobile solution which promises secure “anywhere access” to patient data and images was unveiled at the Health Information Management Systems Society convention […]
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Marching on
E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture’s health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP’s progress so far.
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