Agfa HealthCare announced that Classic Hospitals, a group of ten hospitalsbased in Reading (UK), has signed an £1.5 Million agreement to install AgfaHealthCare's next-generation Picture Archiving and Communications System(PACS), IMPAXTM6.2. Additionally, Agfa HealthCare's CR (ComputedRadiography) solution, the CR 35-X, will be installed in each facility to provideboth general and mammography digital services. The installation will begin inDecember 2006, with all ten hospitals expected to be complete by March 2007.
Each of Classic Hospital's ten facilities is multi-modality, includingorthopaedics, gynecology, breast imaging, and more.
"Three important considerations in choosing Agfa HealthCare solutions weretheir state-of-the-art web-based solutions, the value for the money, and thebenefit of connectivity with the National Health Service (NHS)," said DavidGray, COO, Classic Hospitals. "It will soon be mandated that the private sectorand the public sector be able to transfer images electronically. This arrangementwill ensure that we can service public patients."
"This partnership further endorses Agfa HealthCare's commitment to the privatesector in the UK, building upon the deployment of PACS in the UK under the'Connecting for Health' NHS IT program," said Adrian Stevens, HealthCaredirector, Agfa HealthCare, Northern Europe.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world'sleading imaging and informationtechnology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digitalsystems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (AgfaHealthCare) and film related products and specific industrial applications (AgfaMaterials). Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,308 million Euro in 2005.
Agfa HealthCare supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-artsystems for the capturing, processing and managing of diagnostic images and with ITsolutions that integrate information and imaging workflows into the overall hospitaloperations across departmental disciplines. In addition, Agfa is a leader in the fastgrowing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and throughwhich healthcare facilities become more efficient and effective, with improved patientoutcomes. For more information on Agfa, visit www.agfa.com.
About Classic Hospitals
Classic Hospitals offers a range of healthcare treatments at private hospitals throughoutthe UK. We offer private medical treatments by highly experienced and qualifiedmedical consultants and surgeons. We can advise you on all aspects of your healthcareincluding cosmetic surgery, weight loss surgery, private treatments for men, finance forself-pay patients, and any issues relating to your private consultation. For moreinformation, please visit www.classichospitals.com.