"The total value of the five year deal will be in the vicinity of 5.8 million euro, including a large proportion of Agfa professional services revenues," said Paul Gooden, the General Manager for Agfa's HealthCare in Oceania. The going-live date for the project is set for 2nd Quarter 2005 at The Townsville Hospital and Ingham Hospital in far North Queensland. This is the Proof of Concept site where Agfa professional services will complete a benefits realization study for Queensland Health.
"The decision to choose Agfa was favorably influenced by the successful implementation of the IMPAX(TM) system, named 'QPACS', at all six tertiary hospitals in Queensland over the past four years," commented David Chambers, Regional General Manager for Agfa's HealthCare, Asia-Pacific. "Our proven track record of quality project management and unsurpassed systems integration skills made us the partner of choice for the project." The major challenge for the QRIS Project will be the interfacing to Queensland Health's Master Patient Index system, named "Client Directory" functionality which is central to a number of key patient and clinician benefits.
Queensland Health identified Agfa's proven expertise in interfacing and implementation as the main reasons for choosing Agfa as their RIS partner for the future.
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems, intended mainly for the graphics industry, healthcare, micrographics, motion picture and photography markets.
Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is active in 40 countries and has 120 agents throughout the world. Together they achieved a turnover of 4,215 million euros in 2003.
Product and company information can be found on Agfa's home page on the World Wide Web at: www.agfa.com.
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Contacts:
David Chambers
Regional General Manager HealthCare Asia-Pacific
tel.: +61 (0)3 92 64 77 11
fax: +61 (0)3 92 64 79 00
e-mail: david.chambers@agfapress.com
Geertrui De Smet
Global PR Manager HealthCare
tel.: +32 (0) 3 444 73 06
fax: +32 (0) 3 444 72 85
e-mail: geertruidesmet@agfapress.com
Johan Jacobs
Corporate Press Relations Manager
tel.: +32 (0)3 444 80 15
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e-mail: johan.jacobs@agfa.com
