Under the agreement, the Agfa HealthCare Business Group will deliver a single RIS/PACS solution. Agfa will install its QPlanner(TM) and QDoc(TM) RIS modules and its IMPAX(TM) ES and WEB1000(TM) solutions. The project currently involves hospitals and healthcare centers in 14 municipalities, with the total number of annual radiology examinations amounting to 210,000.
The agreement was signed between the Agfa HealthCare Business Group and healthcare IT company Medi-IT Oy, a Finnish healthcare IT company dedicated to providing IT and EPR (Electronic Patient Record) services to the social and healthcare sectors in Finland. Medi-IT OY, which is owned by the Kymenlaakso and South Karelia hospitals, is also responsible for network security and services at the Kymenlaakso and South Karelia hospital districts.
The KAAPO project will provide local referring doctors with all radiological information (including images) on their patients, once the consent of the patient has been obtained. A regional radiology operational model has been developed, combining a single RIS and PACS approach with a regional archiving concept. The main goal of the project is to introduce the same healthcare information and EPR system to nine healthcare centers, two hospital districts and one occupational healthcare center across South Eastern Finland.
The KAAPO works closely together with the HUS (the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa in southern Finland) university hospital region; the decision to partner with Agfa on the KAAPO project is an extension of Agfa's current role in the HUSpacs project, one of Europe's largest PACS projects.
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analog and digital systems for the graphic industry and for healthcare.
Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is active in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. Together they achieved a turnover of 3,762 million Euros (or US$ 4,677 million*) in 2004.
Agfa's HealthCare business group supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-art systems for the capturing, processing and managing of diagnostic images and with IT solutions that integrate the imaging workflow into the overall hospital operations across departmental disciplines.
In addition, Agfa is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which healthcare facilities become more efficient and effective, with improved patient outcomes.
For more information on Agfa, visit www.agfa.com.
* 1$ = 0.804281 Euro
Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is active in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. Together they achieved a turnover of 3,762 million Euros (or US$ 4,677 million*) in 2004.
Agfa's HealthCare business group supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-art systems for the capturing, processing and managing of diagnostic images and with IT solutions that integrate the imaging workflow into the overall hospital operations across departmental disciplines.
In addition, Agfa is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which healthcare facilities become more efficient and effective, with improved patient outcomes.
For more information on Agfa, visit www.agfa.com.
* 1$ = 0.804281 Euro
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