Agfa HealthCare has won a (AUD) $17 million (U.S. $11.3 million) order for a RIS and PACS project to be installed in Western Australia. The project will create filmless radiology departments and a centralized medical imaging database that will be accessed by teaching hospitals in Perth, the state’s capital, and will ultimately be expanded to secondary and regional healthcare centers in the state.
The project, called WA PACS, differs from other large Agfa PACS projects in Australia in that tertiary hospitals connected to the system will use one common PACS database and storage archive, rather than operating as separate entities linked to the main system.
WA PACS will be designed with complete redundancy, with servers located in two data centers, enabling the system to continue running in the event of a failure at the main data center. In addition to Agfa’s Impax PACS software, the installation will include ADC computed radiography systems and Quadrat RIS software. The project is scheduled for completion in mid-2004.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersSeptember 18, 2003
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