Agfa HealthCare has been selected by Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust to provide PACS (Picture Archiving & Communication System), RIS (Radiology Information System) and Cardiology IT “solutions” to “transform the Trust’s information workflow” by enabling a “completely free data flow” between the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, despite the fact that each facility’s system will work independently of the other.
Impax Cardiovascular will replace a number of separate systems. It provides one system for all cardiac image and data management for a range of cardiac procedures, from ECG to electrophysiology and, Agfa Healthcare says, will provide “an integrated and patient-centric cardiology system for the future” for the Trust.
The Agfa HealthCare hardware uses blade servers “placed in a rack like books on a shelf”. The company says that, in conjunction with virtual machine ware, the server technology will bring “superior availability, excellent resource management and security features to the system”, simultaneously reducing power consumption and lowering heat output.
