Agfa Healthcare is unveiling a work-in-progress system that integrates digital pathology and its Impax PACS at this week's RSNA 2011 meeting in Chicago. The company is also highlighting recent Impax installations.
The integrated pathology system includes a high-throughput, whole slide scanning device coupled with dedicated analytical workstation used by pathologists to view digital pathology images. Once slides are digitally scanned, the pathologist selects the regions of interest to be automatically integrated into the Impax PACS.
The system enhances data sharing of radiology and pathology images, and improves productivity and enhances quality assurance in pathology for university hospitals and large clinics, according to the company.
The system is now undergoing clinical review at La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, a 1600-bed teaching hospital in Paris.
Agfa also announced that it has signed an agreement with the Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum+ in the Netherlands to install its Impax RIS/PACS and Impax for Nuclear Medicine. The systems will provide workflow support to both the radiology and nuclear medicine departments. Implementation will begin in January 2012.
In addition, the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio has successfully deployed Impax 6.5 PACS software as part of its contract with Agfa to provide its Impax platform.
