Self Regional Healthcare Brings Future-Ready Enterprise Imaging Cloud Technology Into South Carolina With AGFA Healthcare

Self Regional Healthcare aims to upgrade its PACS, enhance diagnostic imaging capabilities, and strengthen its financial position while optimizing staff workflows. By adopting AGFA HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging Cloud, they are poised to successfully achieve these objectives.

MORTSEL, BE / ACCESSWIRE / November 27, 2024 / In a significant leap forward for healthcare technology in southwestern South Carolina, Self Regional Healthcare is set to transform its imaging capabilities by adopting AGFA HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging Cloud. This partnership brings the advanced capabilities of cloud-based imaging technology, managed by a global leader in Enterprise Imaging, into the Self Regional Healthcare system.

Enterprise Imaging Cloud, a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS), will provide Self Regional with a cutting-edge imaging management platform. This platform combines the best financial and clinical benefits of a managed SaaS, including better cost control, fast scalability, high reliability, automatic software updates, and a carefree operating lifecycle. AFGA Healthcare manages Enterprise Imaging Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing Self Regional to benefit from the robust security associated with AWS.

Solving Critical Healthcare Challenges
"We operate nine locations utilizing imaging services, and Enterprise Imaging Cloud will address several major challenges for us", says Andy Hartung, Chief Information Officer at Self Regional Healthcare, "and, honestly, they're the kinds of problems that a lot of healthcare organizations are facing." For example, our existing PACS technology was at the end of its life and needed replacing. The unpredictable costs, reliability, and constant maintenance were a huge burden on our staff. We wanted to simplify image access and management for our clinicians, and we knew that the ideal forward-thinking solution would give our physicians and clinical staff a single view of all data together, including radiology, breast imaging, cardiology, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and more. Enterprise Imaging Cloud gives us all of that, and a whole lot more."

Visible and Subtle Advantages
"The platform offers Self Regional substantial benefits that are clear to see, and some perhaps not as obvious, but equally important," says Mark Burgess, AGFA HealthCare President, North America. "From a financial perspective, our Enterprise Imaging Cloud offers a consolidated purchasing model with a single annual price and predictable costs, which gives them much better cost control. That's critical to any HCO's growth plans. It also simplifies the expansion of facilities, departments, and service lines."