Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Trust Upgrades To Agfa HealthCare NX 2.0 Technology, UK

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine
Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound;  IT / Internet / E-mail
Article Date: 14 Jan 2008 - 8:00 PDT

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The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust has recently expanded the new technology Agfa HealthCare NX 2.0 Computed Radiography (CR) equipment across all departments. The Trust is one of the first in the UK to upgrade from the earlier QS technology to NX 2.0 and has enabled it to streamline the radiographic process; allowing images to be identified, annotated and reviewed from the same workstation.

The A&E and Outpatient departments have already been operational with Agfa HealthCare's PRIDS/QS system for the last five years, and the recent installation builds on this existing relationship.

"The roll-out across the Trust has been easy as our radiographers already had lots of experience with our established Agfa HealthCare solutions, so there was a high level of user acceptance", explains Andrew Beatty, PACS Manager at the Trust. "We are very happy with the NX 2.0 technology. It is easy to use, the whole platform is very stable, and it produces images of exceptional quality, even better than the PRIDS/QS system!"

About Agfa

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare) and film related products and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3401 million Euro in 2006.

About Agfa HealthCare

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa - Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing, processing and printing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. The company has over a century of experience in diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Agfa HealthCare today employs 5,700 staff members, with sales offices and representatives in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2006 were 1452 million Euro, accounting for 43% of total group sales.

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