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Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust chooses Agfa Healthcare solutions
20 March 2008
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust has chosen Agfa Healthcare's IMPAX
PACS, RIS and Cardiovascular suite of image and information management
solutions for the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust has a worldwide reputation for
the diagnosis and treatment of heart and lung disease. It was one of the
first trusts in the UK to implement a picture archiving and
communications system, installing the current PACS in 1998.
IMPAX Cardiovascular will provide a unified platform which will
replace a number of separate systems employed throughout the Trust.
IMPAX Cardiovascular provides one system for all cardiac image and data
management for a range of cardiac procedures from ECG to
electrophysiology, providing the Trust with an integrated and
patient-centric cardiology system.
Professor David Hansell, consultant radiologist and chair of the
Trust’s project board, said, “As a world-class specialist heart and lung
centre, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovation both
in terms of the cardiothoracic care we provide and the clinical support
services that underpin our work. The new Agfa system will help us to
retain this leadership position.”
The deployment of all the Agfa HealthCare equipment represents a
technical challenge, as David Jenkins, Account Manager for Agfa
HealthCare explained: “Over the next couple of months we will migrate
all the data from the existing systems to one new, state-of-the-art,
information system. The Trust will benefit from changes that will
enhance the experience of both staff and patients alike.”
To manage this vast amount of data, Agfa HealthCare will use blade
server technology. The blade servers are placed in a rack like books on
a shelf. In conjunction with virtual machine ware, this will bring
superior availability, excellent resource management and security
features to the system as well as realising environmental benefits with
reduced power consumption and lower heat output.
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