Isala Clinics in the Netherlands speeds up radiology workflow and patient throughput

July 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Isala Clinics benefits from usability, speed and advanced tools of the newest IMPAX RIS/PACS image and information management solution.

Following a visit to Agfa HealthCare's demo site in Liege, Isala recognized that the solution would answer its needs for greater stability, very fast speed and excellent speech recognition.

Agfa HealthCare and Isala worked together closely to configure the system to meet Isala's specific requirements for storage, a new radiologist workplace and a virtual software environment. The solution went live end of May 2013, and is already exceeding expectations.

Isala Clinics in Zwolle, the Netherlands, is the largest non-university hospital in the country, with over 5400 employees and almost 1000 beds. Its renowned radiology department performs some 250,000 exams each year. In August 2013, Isala Clinics will open its new, state-of-the-art 104,000 m2 hospital site in Zwolle.

This very modern facility will include space for offices, research and treatment facilities, nursing wards, laboratories and other functions spread out across four buildings.

In preparation, the hospital invited Agfa HealthCare and its competitors to present their visions of the future of healthcare imaging. "Our vision most closely matched their own," explains Albert Vroklage, Sales Manager for Agfa HealthCare in the Netherlands. "Based on that, Isala Clinics visited our demo site in Liege, Belgium, and they agreed that our IMPAX RIS/PACS was the solution that would best fit their needs."

The IMPAX RIS/PACS and Reporting solution optimizes the entire clinical and administrative workflow, from order evaluation and patient registration to image management, results distribution and management reporting.

It thus makes departmental imaging more efficient, enables increased productivity, and allows departments to more effectively serve hospital staff, patients and referring GPs.

The IMPAX 6.5.3 software version includes advanced features that focus on usability, workflow and productivity and business intelligence. Committed to being in the forefront of healthcare technology, Isala asked Agfa HealthCare to configure the solution to meet some of their specific requirements. The hospital was creating entirely new workplaces for the radiologists.

"By working together directly on configuration, validation, etc., the process went very smoothly," comments Albert Vroklage. "There was a lot of testing to be done, and it required real collaboration. But despite the complexity, the project was completed on-time, which was especially important as the hospital is preparing to move to the new site at the end of the summer!"

Read the whole story and more like it at: http://healthcaretechnologymagazine.com/HTM/index.php/en/...

About Healthcare Technology Magazine

The aim of Healthcare Technology Magazine is to provide a daily stream of quality driven Healthcare IT and Medical Technology News for Worldwide Healthcare Executives.

Healthcare Technology Magazine believes that the right information at the right time can change everything.

As an always on flexible digital media, Healthcare Technology Magazine caters for a truly Global audience of buyers and sellers. With over 50,000 unique readers each month last quarter, and an opt-in email database of over 40,000 individual contacts HTM media and content goes further.