Member hospitals will benefit from standards-based interoperability, data synchronization and fast access to the complete imaging patient record

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it will be installing its IMPAX Data Center 2.0 at Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) in Toronto, Canada. IMPAX Data Center is a scalable and fault tolerant enterprise medical imaging repository solution designed to store clinical DICOM data objects, including DICOM encapsulated non-imaging objects such as waveforms, structured reports and PDF’s. It consolidates imaging data of departmental clinical information systems, including disparate PACS systems, catering to the imaging management needs of an enterprise and serving as a unified repository for large, multi-site and multi-facility healthcare domains.

With IMPAX Data Center 2.0 will facilitate automatic study synchronization between HDIRS's IMPAX spoke facilities and its IMPAX Data Center hub. This feature will automatically propagate structural study changes such as study split, merge, image deletion and metadata changes made at the originating spoke to the data center. This is in addition to its HL7 (Inbound) support for Patient and Study update messages: to handle patient and study updates from third party PACS/RIS.

This second release also further expands the capability with support for:
• IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS): to facilitate imaging data exchange within an XDS infrastructure, IMPAX Data Center 2.0 includes the support for the following IHE actors:
XDS Repository, XDS-I Imaging Document Source and XDS-I Imaging Document Consumer (proxy)
• Disaster Recovery (DR) support for Active-Active configuration: to provide a DR solution with application level replication.

"As a regional DIR service, IMPAX Data Center 2.0 is of interest to HDIRS for a number of reasons. IMPAX Data Center 2.0 will provide important functionality to facilitate data sharing among our members which is important in our multi-vendor environment. It will also provide a platform that is scalable to support our future growth within diagnostic imaging as we approach 2,000,000 exams/year. Equally important for the future, IMPAX Data Center 2.0 will allow us to expand the services we provide to our members outside the traditional diagnostic imaging space to areas such as pathology and ophthalmology. " said Pat Ryan, General Manager HDIRS.

"Agfa HealthCare is proud to have HDIRS as a strategic partner and is committed to help them to meet their goals of deployment in line with the Canada Health Infoway blueprint. The implementation of IMPAX Data Center 2.0 is the next crucial step on the road towards that goal," said Michael Green, President & CEO, North American Region.