Agfa adds to Impax Cardiovascular capabilities

Agfa HealthCare introduced new capabilities for its Impax Cardiovascular Suite at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 in Vienna, Austria, this week.

The product now integrates multi-lingual, multi-modality imaging and reporting capabilities, according to Agfa. The system provides a consolidated view of all cross-modality cardiology and radiology images within a single review station, Agfa said.

Among the modalities supported by the Impax Cardiovascular Suite is cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, non-invasive vascular, endovascular, rhythmology, cardiac CT, electrophysiology and stress ECG image and data management, the company said.

In addition, the firm is now offering the product with a multi-lingual reporting platform that supports procedure reporting with natural language generation query and statistical analysis modules and registry functionality for multiple European registries.

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