Agfa HealthCare to display IMPAX Data Center with XERO technology at ECR 2010

Newly developed medical image and report viewer requires only an internet connection

• Press release
• Mortsel, Belgium / Vienna, Austria
• March 05, 2010 10:00

(ECR 2010, Booth #103) Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced today that its IMPAX Data Center Viewer powered by XERO will be on display at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna from March 4th to March 8th 2010. A new software solution developed by Agfa HealthCare, the IMPAX Data Center Viewer is a “zero footprint” medical image and report viewer developed to provide access to medical imaging information for clinicians at any point of care. The solution requires no downloads of client application software or web application frameworks, thereby providing ready availability of imaging information to clinicians, independent of network bandwidth or operating system.

Working in conjunction withIMPAXDataCenter, Agfa HealthCare's enterprise medical imaging repository, the XERO technology allows for local retrieval and viewing of images and reports from multiple departments and EHRs. Its standards-based interface and powerful image processing provide ubiquitous access to DICOM and DICOM-encapsulated imaging information, including PDFs, DICOM structured reports and images encoded in a wide variety of DICOM-supported formats.

Agfa HealthCare's XERO technology, a Web 2.0 platform, uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to allow users to dynamically retrieve and view text and image information in the user's Web browser. IMPAX Data Center Viewer converts images and content for display in a browser without requiring any client software installation.

"Our XERO technology is a primary example of how Agfa HealthCare continues to deliver new and innovative solutions with our customers in mind," states Volker Wetekam, Vice President IT at Agfa HealthCare. "A key reason for the existence of healthcare IT is to help clinicians and specialists in managing the ever growing volume of data, and delivering tools to support the increased complexity of studies and information. This can only be achieved by ensuring that such solutions are flexible and easy to use, with no fuss and no complexities. XERO delivers on this expectation."

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Hospitals and healthcare facilities will appreciate the low cost of Agfa HealthCare'sIMPAXDataCenterviewer, powered by XERO. They require no user site maintenance due to its lack of client software and desktop deployment. The XERO technology is also easily adaptable by staff and typically requires very little to no training.

IMPAXDataCenterwith XERO is on display at Agfa HealthCare's booth #103 at the annual ECR 2010 conference,March 5-8, 2010, inVienna,Austria.