Mortsel, Belgium | August 4, 2015 | 2:00 PM CET
- The Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging platform will support the meaningful capture, storage, exchange and access to medical images automatically through the electronic patient record. - Following cardiology image data, 11 other imaging departments will be added to the Enterprise Imaging platform to enable the review of images within the hospital’s EPR. - Upgrade of existing picture archiving and communication system (PACS). - Long-term solution will adapt to evolving Trust needs.
Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has signed an agreement for the first Enterprise Imaging platform to be implemented in the UK with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. The agreement includes the integration and installation of the Enterprise Imaging platform – the first in the UK –as well as an upgrade of the Trust’s existing PACS solution. The contract was signed at the end of November 2014, and implementation began in January 2015.
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Long-term solution for managing imaging data
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust provides acute services across 863 beds. The Trust provides a wide range of hospitals services along with an increasing range of more specialised services to patients outside of the area. The Trust also provides a substantial range of community based services, particularly within Family Care and Therapy Services.
The Trust first deployed Agfa HealthCare’s PACS solution in 2007. As part of a new 7-year contract with Agfa HealthCare, the Trust wanted to include an upgraded platform. In addition, the Trust wanted to add a long-term archive solution including a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) and a replicated, high availability (HA) solution for PACS & Enterprise Imaging.
Freeing imaging from information silos
Agfa HealthCare designed an imaging platform to the Trust’s technical and clinical requirements. This platform centers around Enterprise Imaging, a comprehensive enterprise-class imaging clinical information system that helps hospitals free medical images and information from its information silos, enabling the meaningful capture, storing, exchange of and access to medical images directly through the EPR.
The agreement also includes the latest version of IMPAX, plus Enterprise Imaging XERO Viewer and VNA. The zero-footprint Viewer enables
stakeholders to view their relevant images using only a commonly-used Internet browser and a modest network connection. Enterprise Imaging VNA will act as a long-term, vendor-neutral repository for data and images. Hardware has been supplied by Hewlett Packard combining SMAHP 3PAR NAS servers with dual data center configuration for high availability and business continuity.
