Greenville, South Carolina - Agfa HealthCare has recently been chosen by several U.S. hospitals and imaging centers for the company's next-generation Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX^TM 6.0 PACS is being installed by organizations ranging from large multi-facility groups to community-based hospitals and imaging centers.

Among those turning to Agfa for their move to the advanced PACS solution and other products are:
* Wuesthoff Hospital, Melbourne, Florida;
* Abbeville County Memorial Hosp, Abbeville, South Carolina;
* Hawthorn Medical Associates, North Dartmouth, Maine;
* Johnson County Imaging Center, Overland Park, Kansas.
* Barberton Citizens Hospital, Barberton, Ohio: IMPAX PACS, CR and DRYSTAR^TM hardcopy imagers;
* Cobre Valley Community Hospital, Global, Arizona: IMPAX PACS and CR digitizers;
* Lower Keys Medical Center, Key West, Florida: IMPAX PACS and CR digitizers;
* Audrain Medical Center, Mexico, MO: IMPAX PACS and RIS, CR and DRYSTAR hardcopy imagers;
* Radiology Consultants of Mid America, O'Fallon, IL: IMPAX PACS and IMPAX RIS for Imaging Centers;
* Valley Medical Center, Apple Valley, CA: IMPAX PACS and RIS.

As healthcare organizations such as these move from film to a digital environment, they are looking for solutions like Agfa's that offer innovative technology and proven solutions to help provide high quality patient care.

"A wide variety of healthcare providers across the care continuum are choosing Agfa solutions to help them provide high quality care with solutions that can decrease report turnaround time, improve patient throughput, boost productivity, and increase admitting and referring physician satisfaction," said Robert Pryor, president, Agfa HealthCare, Americas. "As healthcare organizations transition from film to a digital environment, they are looking to Agfa because of our commitment to offering innovative technology and proven solutions that help provide high quality patient care."

Agfa HealthCare has recently launched a new platform to assist its customers in providing high quality care. Agfa's IMPAX 6.0 PACS is built upon the knowledge and experience of over 10,000 radiologists. With its unique persona-based design, IMPAX 6.0 PACS has been developed to meet specific workflow requirements of multiple users. IMPAX 6.0 software is an internet-deployable application that can improve the planning, capture, interpretation, distribution and archiving of diagnostic images throughout the hospital enterprise, regardless of its size. Agfa's DX-S^TM CR solution improves image quality and efficiency by bridging Computed Radiography (CR) and Digital Radiography (DR) through the unique combination of two technologies, DirectriX^TM and ScanHead^TM.

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