Agfa HealthCare awarded new contract with Premier for Film and Medical Imagers

Mortsel, Belgium - July 18th, 2008 - 15:00 (CET)

 

 

Agfa HealthCare announced today that it has been awarded a new three-year contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., to provide film and medical imagers at competitive terms and conditions to the healthcare alliance's 2,000 member hospitals and 53,000 other alternate healthcare sites in the United States.

 

Agfa HealthCare provides a comprehensive assortment of medical film and imagers including conventional screen film, mammography film, cine film, screens and cassettes, dry media and dry imagers. Agfa HealthCare's entire line of diagnostic film, media and imagers is included in the Premier contract.

 

This includes its newest imager, the DRYSTAR® AXYSTM, as well as the company's entire family of imagers such as the DRYSTAR 5503, DRYSTAR 5300, and DRYSTAR 5302. The DRYSTAR AXYS and DRYSTAR 5503 also have mammography printing capabilities.

 

Effective September 1, 2008, this agreement represents the latest progression of Agfa HealthCare's ongoing relationship with Premier and its member facilities that spans back to 1995. Agfa HealthCare also has Enterprise Image Management Solutions (EIMS) and Computed Radiography (CR) contracts with Premier.

 

Agfa HealthCare works in a consultative relationship with its customers in order to help them achieve seamless integration and connectivity across the enterprise. The company's success is based on its ability to offer a unique combination of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT experience that allows for a fully integrated image-enabled electronic medical record.

 

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare) and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). 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 3,283 million Euro in 2007.

 

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. The HealthCare division has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2007 were 1,392 million Euro, accounting for 43% of total group sales. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfa.com/healthcare.

 

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.