Agfa nets Premier film, medical imagers deal

TriMed Staff | | Health Imaging | Practice Management

Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded Agfa HealthCare a contract to provide film and medical imagers to its 2,000 member hospitals and its 53,000 alternate healthcare sites in the United States, effective Sept. 1.

Agfa said its entire line of diagnostic film, media and imagers is included in the Premier contract, including its newest imager, the Drystar Axystm, as well as the company’s entire family of imagers such as the Drystar 5503, Drystar 5300 and Drystar 5302.  The Drystar Axys and Drystar 5503 have mammography printing capabilities.

TriMed Staff

Related Content

COVID restrictions left many rad tech students 'very unprepared' for workforce
Clinicians want AI to show its work
Multidose contrast injectors could increase waste in some radiology departments
Imaging leaders share 7 key considerations for remote scanning programs
Policies and regulations shaping radiology in 2025
Can large language models break language barriers in radiology reports?

Around the web

Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.