Integrated Care USE CASES With the Agfa HealthCare Portal, hospitals can offer care providers, referring physicians and patients “anywhere, anytime” access to the patient’s health information from different sourc

The Portal is the first step to achieving that full integrated care model. It provides an easy-to-integrate and -use portal for image and results delivery that smoothly integrates with both Agfa Healthcare enterprise imaging or health management solutions, and third-party systems. With the Portal, Agfa HealthCare has taken the knowledge and experience it has built up with proven solutions that share images and other data, and is extending it beyond the hospital walls, to eventually integrate all players in healthcare delivery. 0 A patient-centric view of information and actions 0 Information...

Open the door to image exchange, anywhere How do you share images and reports with people inside and outside your network? Can you share safely and easily? Can you upload images and documents? Do you have a state-ofthe-art diagnostic image and report viewer? Take a good, hard look at how you share images: is it really as good as you want it to be? THE PROBLEM: CDs and DVDs take too much time, get lost, are not ‘patient-friendly’ and make multidisciplinary consultations complicated. THE ANSWER: Digital imaging exchange is easy and quick, prevents lost images, supports consultations with peers...

It seems everyone in the patient’s care has a stake in quick, easy, anywhere/anytime access to images and reports. And you can make it happen. A CASE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Cardiologists and radiologists at a hospital are dissatisfied using CDs and DVDs to exchange images with caregivers from other facilities. The disks are easy to lose, burning images takes time and there can be problems reading data. Even when nothing goes wrong, importing, exporting and sending are labor-intensive. Additional medical data has to be added manually, which can allow errors to creep in. The hospital wants to find an...

Get the whole picture: results and all Does your sharing tool let you share what you want with whom you want, where you want? How do you share results with people across departments, disciplines and sites? Can you share lab results and clinical notes as safely and easily as images? Does your sharing tool provide secure links to out-of-network stakeholders in your patients’ care? THE PROBLEM: A patient’s healthcare no longer takes place all under one roof. Lab tests, clinical notes and imaging exams need to be shared seamlessly and electronically with all healthcare stakeholders, beyond hospital...

The Portal is your gateway to enhanced collaboration, with easy, secure and cost-effective results review and sharing. A CASE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Four hospitals are collaborating across different locations, to provide high quality, cost-efficient patient care. A patient is admitted into one hospital for a complex surgery by an experienced surgeon. But the physician for follow-up treatment is based out of a second hospital. At the same time, another patient is being treated for cancer, involving multiple treatments, exams, follow-up and more. Several specialists are working together on the patient’s...

Bringing it all together across your site How do you bring all of the patient’s data together into a single overview? Can you aggregate data from both the in-patient and outpatient EMR, and from other sources, such as PACS, RIS, LIS, etc.? Can your solution integrate other applications, including web applications, into its front-end, for a familiar look-and-feel? Can your solution handle requests for data from multiple sources? THE PROBLEM: Today, patient care crosses disciplinary and departmental boundaries. Different care providers need access to all of a patient’s data, from any department:...

The Portal frees your patient information from its silos, and brings it all together so it can be put to its purpose: enhancing patient care and outcomes A CASE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Every day around lunchtime at a certain hospital, a multidisciplinary group of physicians and specialists gets together to discuss their patients. The group includes the physicians who have examined the patients that morning, along with the surgical oncologist, medical oncologist, pathologist, gastroenterologist, radiotherapist, nuclear medicine physician and radiologist. One by one, the treating physician describes the...

Can your solution handle requests for data from multiple sources and sites? ONE OVERVIEW OF ALL PATIENT DATA In today’s hospital networks, colleagues are often working at different sites, even if they share responsibility for a patient. And for patients, with certain tests and procedures performed at one facility and others at a different facility, information and results can be spread across sites. This means that sharing and accessing data has to be easy and fast, anywhere in the hospital network. And all of the data must be available in a single overview, to facilitate informed care and treatment...

The Portal reaches across your network to get the patient data, from images, to lab results to clinical notes, where it’s needed, when it’s needed A CASE IN THE SPOTLIGHT A GP suspects cancer in a patient, and refers him to a specialist surgeon in a nearby hospital. The surgeon begins the diagnosis, and then presents the patient case at the weekly multidisciplinary consultation, which includes participants at several hospitals in the network. The team decides to have the surgery performed at a university hospital, with radiotherapy at another care center, followed by chemotherapy and follow-up...

More engaging: empowered patients How do you communicate with patients, on- and off-line? Can you reach out to patients before they arrive at your facility? Can patients find the information, forms, etc. that they need for their visit to your facility? Can they upload key data, such as monitoring data, heart rates, etc. remotely and conveniently? Can they easily access and share their own health information? Can patients and treatment teams communicate conveniently, in both directions? GETTING INVOLVED When you put patients in control of their own healthcare, they become engaged. You can be more...