SIIM: Agfa demonstrates RIS, PACS, enterprise capabilities

Agfa HealthCare is highlighting its Impax RIS, PACS and reporting solutions for radiology and its enterprise visualization solutions--Impax Data Center and Impax Mobility Enterprise Clinical Viewer---at the 2009 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting this week in Charlotte, N.C.

Impax RIS, which enables electronic management of radiology operations, includes modules ranging from patient registration to worklist generation and medical reporting to transcription and business intelligence, as well as optional modules for scheduling and management reporting, according to the company. Agfa's Impax Reporting supports voice recognition and digital dictation models and uses macros and other automated editing features that allow automatic distribution to the RIS and the referring physician.

Impax Data Center is a vendor-neutral enterprise imaging infrastructure and Impax Mobility Enterprise Clinical Viewer is a web deployable enterprise image and result viewer designed for rapid and easy deployment, operating across wide area networks. The viewer is manufactured by Medical Insight A/S as EasyViz, according to Agfa.



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