Agfa integrates clinical data into RIS/PACS
6 March 2007 Agfa HealthCare has launched the IMPAX Clinical Module, a
new software component for the IMPAX radiology information system/picture
archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS), that brings disparate
clinical data such as lab results, pharmacy and pathology to the IMPAX
Radiology Desktop. The new module brings clinical information that
radiologists need from multiple sources into a single desktop location.
Having this information available in real time, from multiple systems with a
single log-on, saves the physician time and could potentially result in
improved decisions. "This patient-centric information workflow is a new
level of information integration for radiologists," said Lenny J Reznik,
Director of Enterprise Imaging and Information, Agfa HealthCare Corporation,
Americas. "Information is available in organizations in non-integrated
legacy systems. Our solution integrates the clinical information from these
legacy systems into the daily workflow of both protocoling and
interpretation."
The system flags abnormal results transmitted by the modality. The process
of having this information on demand in real time has made radiologists
comment on the potential to save up to five minutes for every study they
need to protocol. Little has been done to bring clinical information to the
radiologist until now. Integration of clinical evidence to aid the
radiologists with the protocoling and interpretation process is delivered
through a zero click context sensitive integration to any clinical system in
real-time. Agfa has learned from radiologists that they need pharmacy data
(such as medications and allergies), results (such as urinalysis for
infection and liver function), lab data (such as creatinine, white blood
cell count, and pregnancy test results), as well as surgical and cytology
pathology reports. The company says that the challenge has been to retrieve
that data from multiple clinical systems in real time without separate
logins and incorporate that data into the protocoling and interpretation
workflow. The IMPAX Clinical Module is the result of this challenge.
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