Agfa HealthCare
Bridging Horizons for Easier Accessibility of Imaging Data

Throughout the past few decades, the medical imaging industry has undergone profound technological changes with rapid advancements in its service delivery models as user expectations evolved. The siloed radiology-centric models that were replete with analog and manual processes are long gone, making way for interactive operations that satisfy today’s on-demand, instantaneous expectations. In the meantime, clinical acquisitions and distributions caused the industry to branch into a myriad of diverse and decentralized medical imaging services sparsely integrated through a web of distributed management and governance programs. With the disparate environments lacking any proper workflow management, it becomes critical for the medical imaging industry to establish an efficient, enterprise-wide patient image record that enables the seamless interaction of these environments.

Against this challenging backdrop, Agfa HealthCare brings an effective health imaging IT ecosystem to medical practitioners for seamless collaboration between departments and geographies. Agfa HealthCare is transforming care delivery worldwide by empowering healthcare professionals with secure, efficient, and sustainable imaging data management solutions. Headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium, Agfa HealthCare represents the Imaging IT division of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, supplying healthcare providers with innovative IT solutions.

“At Agfa HealthCare, we focus on our core Imaging IT software business. Based on our flagship Enterprise Imaging platform and the IMPAX® solutions, we continue to deliver superior value to our Imaging IT customers,” says Pascal Juéry, President and CEO of the Agfa- Gevaert Group.

In addition to imaging IT software solutions purpose-built to reduce complexity, Agfa HealthCare provides adequate support to the medical fraternity in achieving clinical, operational and business strategies. The company designs its tools and applications on a modular platform ecosystem, enabling customers to have on short notice, onsite and offsite image exchange and real-time chat and collaboration capabilities based on native tools available on the platform.

The Sky is the Limit with Cloud

Over the past decade, Agfa HealthCare has offered cloud services to healthcare organizations to streamline their image archiving and management processes. The company’s solutions have evolved to align with the changing cloud environment, bringing new capabilities and benefits that match the business strategy of healthcare institutions.

In response to the huge demand for solutions to support remote working, Agfa HealthCare has launched a new cloud service: Cloud VNA and XERO Viewer. With XERO’s award-winning Universal Viewer footprint technology, medical practitioners are ensured “anywhere, anytime” access to the patient’s holistic imaging data for making timely, informed clinical decisions. With this service, all the Enterprise Imaging VNA hardware servers, XERO Viewer web servers and Enterprise Imaging database of a healthcare organization can be deployed off-premise on a public cloud. Healthcare institutions only need to connect their on-premise PACS to the cloud VNA after which their storage needs will be taken care of. The XERO Universal Viewer improves collaboration by ensuring that everyone throughout the enterprise can access and share the imaging data.

For clinicians to maximize the value of their own expertise, Agfa Healthcare offers tools in augmented intelligence that can be embedded right into the workflows and systems they use every day. Agfa HealthCare’s AI and Analytics tools rely on an augmented intelligence platform called RUBEE for AI that provides real-time insights. To enable clinicians to focus on cases requiring an immediate attention, RUBEE for AI embeds meticulously curated, augmented intelligence speciality packages that work flawlessly to support clinical workflows from start to finish.

As a part of Agfa Healthcare’s Business Intelligence services, easy-to-access reports and tools help gather, organize, analyze and manage different data sets from any domain for remote reporting. Powered by Looker, the company’s business intelligence analytics simplifies the creation of custom reports on top of offering predefined ones for better analysis and understanding of KPIs.