| | June 201619CIOReviewAgfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging services helps healthcare organizations to standardize, consolidate, and improve the accessibility of medical images while enriching image workflows with relevant information.Benefits of Business IntelligenceAgfa Healthcare allows the user to easily access reports and dashboards via the Web. The users can create/author their own tailored reports with Ad-hoc reporting. It helps maximize performance and source integrity through an independent reporting database. One can also rely on Agfa's knowledgeable consulting team to assist you if the need arises.Healthcare made AccessibleHealthcare efficiency now includes the quality of care and consumer satisfaction in its definition. Within the changing healthcare environment the responsibility is strongly on diagnosticians to not only interpret studies with a high degree of quality and accuracy, but to also add value by being available to consult with other physicians to explain and clarify findings, and even communicate and assist at the patient level with both individuals and their familiesCare delivery is no longer a single physician exercise. Dynamically built teams of care givers deliver integrated care to patients in need. These physicians need to exchange imaging and multimedia information to enable collaboration on patient care. Agfa HealthCare has developed a universal Enterprise (XERO) Viewer. It is a zero footprint, browser-based platform that offers fast and secure access to patient images and reports regardless of location or origin. Within XERO Viewer there is a native study sharing functionality that allows an authorized user to share a patient's image, study or entire record with another authenticated user, or device. This includes the ability to send a secured web link using an email client, a QR code (mobile device barcode), or by copying the text-based link into another application or browser. Level of security and duration of access can be determined by the site at implementation.Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging provides the services that allow healthcare organizations to reduce maintenance costs across multiple departments through consolidated enterprise exchange, viewing, capture, workflow, management, and departmental services; improving the efficiency and quality of care.Managed Cloud ServicesAgfa HC IT Solutions have evolved over time leveraging the latest technology which makes it cloud ready. This has given Agfa an early start to launch this business model under Managed Services. This has got high recognition and has eventually resulted in benefiting clinicians to get their results which in-turn contributes to Patient care. Agfa helps their clients address the departmental and enterprise challenge of medical image and report management, storage, retrieval and distribution which in return saves time and cost. But the key diver is Optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through economies of scale, and by replacing large capital purchases with operational expenditures. Agfa HealthCare's Managed and Cloud Services perform the day-to-day monitoring and management, maintenance, updates and support of your system. It also helps protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patient data which facilitate staff efficiency, ultimately increasing both staff and patient satisfaction.Suresh Ranganathan, General Manager of Agfa HealthCare India and ASEAN, interprets the future of the healthcare industry, "In the future, the need will arise for a single converged platform strategy which provides multi-departmental informatics, PACS and imaging services, VNA, image exchange, mobile display and acquisition, physician collaboration, patient engagement, foreign study management, and regional health services, on a single converged platform." Suresh Ranganathan, General Manager- India & ASEAN20 Most PromisingHEALTHCARESolution Providers 2016
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