AGFA HealthCare's enterprise imaging solutions set for significant expansion following new partnership
AGFA HealthCare has inked a large new deal set to stage a significant expansion of its cloud-based enterprise imaging technology.
The company—a provider of data management solutions across numerous medical specialties—is partnering with Europe's Alliance Medical to implement its cloud-based solutions across all of the imaging provider’s 120 sites throughout the United Kingdom.
Touted as "Europe's leading independent imaging services provider," Alliance Medical has partnered with UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to provide a wide breadth of imaging services for three decades. Within the NHS system alone, it conducts over 400,000 exams spanning multiple modalities every year. They provide services at more than 50 hospitals and complete over 800,000 scans across all locations annually.
The new partnership is expected to further enhance Alliance Medical’s diagnostic capabilities, increasing collaboration among providers and efficiency in referral processes throughout the NHS network.
“The groundbreaking partnership between Alliance Medical and AGFA HealthCare will play a key role in enabling us to achieve our strategic vision, on behalf of our patients and stakeholders, and will support our commitment to integrating diagnostics into existing care pathways,” UK Managing Director at Alliance Medical, Pete Winchester, said in a release on the partnership. “AGFA HealthCare’s solution really led from the front, and the digital ecosystem they brought together will deliver the experience, knowledge and innovation needed to create a complete cloud-based solution which covers the entire end-to-end patient pathway.”
As part of the deal, Alliance Medical will integrate the AGFA HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Platform with Shared Workflow and the XERO Exchange Network. Powered by Amazon Web Services, this platform will enable providers across multiple locations to securely communicate and share diagnostic patient information in near real-time. It also includes artificial intelligence and specialized visualization tools intended to streamline provider workflows.
“We are delighted to further strengthen our partnership with Alliance Medical Group and the relationship with Alliance Medical UK, which is an integral part of the health economy in the U.K. and beyond. Combining that bond with our close collaboration with our market-leading partners will enable us to jointly deliver a luminary solution that brings together each of our leading technologies: enterprise imaging, clinical decision support, complex workflow orchestration and advanced augmented intelligence,” Regional President for Northern Europe for AGFA HealthCare, Roberto Anello, said in the same release. “These will run through the heart of the solution to enable clinicians to deliver outcomes for patients and an exceptional user experience that is rich in efficiency gains.”
The platform's deployment is set to begin later in 2024 and will be phased in to ensure a smooth transition.
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