Afga Healthcare Introduces New Cardiovascular Information System

Thanh Le | | Radiology Business | Business Intelligence
imageAgfa HealthCare unveiled a new version of its Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS), IMPAX CV12, at the American College of Cardiology’s 61st Annual Scientific Session & Expo, held last month in Chicago. The IMPAX CV12 platform has a modular design that lets users take advantage of new upgrades as they are released. The first release of the platform features a new patient management module that includes enhanced search capability, an improved graphical user interface (GUI), and a patient worklist for improved workflow. Agfa HealthCare has designed IMPAX CV12 to provide support for SNOMED-CT and other standard terminologies to help facilitate regulatory reporting compliance by customers. IMPAX CV12 supports Oracle 11g and Microsoft Windows Server 2008r2 software. The product can be virtualized to reduce the hardware footprint so organizations can lower their total cost of ownership. Agfa adds that the system is reliable and meets the rigorous Department of Defense (DoD) security requirements. IMPAX CV12 also supports Agfa HealthCare’s Imaging Clinical Information System (ICIS) platform to bring images into the Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the ICIS services platform, images and associated data are available to clinicians at virtually any location.View the press release for additional information.

Thanh Le

Related Content

Orano Med breaks ground on $265M thorium production site
Image-interpretation market scoreboard: Radiologists 72%, others 28%
Lantheus lands rights to budding radiopharmaceuticals for initial outlay of $35M
17 short-term strategies to address the national radiologist shortage
‘SR’ onboards another independent practice, its 1st in the Natural State
Analysis: Allied radiology professionals generate millions of dollars per year in indirect revenues alone

Around the web

Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.