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Healthcare transformation. We'll take you there.

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Introducing Agfa HealthCare

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer in the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's.

Agfa HealthCare today offers its customers an extensive portfolio of solutions, including Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Clinical Information Systems (CIS), Radiology Information Systems (RIS), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), Cardiology Information and Image Management Systems (CVIS), solutions for reporting, enterprise scheduling, decision support, and data storage as well as Digital Radiography, Computed Radiography, print solutions, film and associated products.

Over the years, Agfa HealthCare has demonstrated its capacity for successfully supporting its customers' technological challenges, and transitioning them from analog to digital to IT solutions. This success has made Agfa HealthCare a global Imaging Informatics leader with over 2300 installations (PACS, RIS, CVIS) worldwide, and a European healthcare Enterprise IT leader with systems installed in 1200 European hospitals and 1000 laboratories. The company is also a pioneer in the e-health arena, with solutions linking thousands of General Practioners to healthcare providers.

Agfa HealthCare today has sales offices and representatives in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2009 were 1,178 million Euro.

Delivering solutions

Agfa HealthCare delivers imaging and IT solutions across the continuum of care, including advanced solutions for Cardiology, Radiology, Orthopaedics, Mammography, Trauma and paediatric departments, to mention but a few, as well as full suite enterprise IT solutions for care facilities of varying sizes.

IT solutions developed and implemented by Agfa HealthCare work across departmental disciplines to integrate information and streamline the workflows and operations of hospitals, imaging centers and other healthcare facilities, enabling a more productive and efficient healthcare offering. Agfa HealthCare is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which significant gains can be made in the delivery of care, speed and cost effectiveness.

Imaging systems developed and implemented by Agfa HealthCare capture, process, and manage diagnostic images from a multitude of sources within and beyond the healthcare enterprise, integrating these into a variety of workflows and systems. These systems are designed to bring vital information to medical practitioners regardless of their location. Agfa HealthCare's solutions serve a multitude of medical specialties and departments including radiology, cardiology, orthopaedics, women's care and intensive care units.

The healthcare market

The healthcare market and practitioners are facing these increased pressures on two distinct levels: current demographic evolutions and the ever increasing pace of evolution in medical science.

Demographics are driving the healthcare business, and as populations boom, the demand for healthcare will explode. Demographic evolution and pressures in the healthcare sector are primarily driven by a rapidly growing world population, a rapidly aging population and increasing patient empowerment.

Medical science is continually making rapid advances: new treatments and medication are developed and launched at a rapid pace and healthcare providers are increasingly expected to move with the latest techniques, approaches and requirements. This includes rapidly evolving medicine and rapidly evolving medical research, discovering new cures, techniques and approaches.

Agfa HealthCare knows that ever evolving healthcare IT solutions are helping to keep these pressures in check - from Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) to full-suite Enterprise IT systems - and that their increasing adoption will play a key role in helping manage the demographic and medical pressures which its customers will face. Over the years, Agfa HealthCare has demonstrated a successful transition from analog to digital to IT solutions in hospitals around the world, and has introduced a new line-up of workflow solutions supported by expert services.

Quick facts

  • Agfa HealthCare is the European leader in Picture Archiving & Communication Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS).

  • Agfa HealthCare is a European healthcare enterprise IT leader with systems installed in 1200 European hospitals and 1000 laboratries.

  • Agfa HealthCare has over 15 years experience in the development of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and was one of the first to commercialize PACS in the healthcare industry. Agfa HealthCare is a global imaging informatics leader with over 2300 installations worldwide.