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Agfa Healthcare has announced that The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, has selected the Agfa Heartlab Cardiovascular solution for cardiology image and information management. When the Agfa Heartlab Cardiovascular system is fully implemented it will manage images and information from the hospital’s three cardiac catheterization labs. A vendor-neutral solution, it integrates with the hospital’s existing modality equipment, picture archiving and communications system (PACS), hospital information systems, and hemodynamic monitoring system. The integrated solution provides cardiologists with a single point of access to all cardiology patient data, helping to increase efficiency and to facilitate diagnostic decision-making.

The Prince Charles Hospital is a 580-bed multi-speciality facility providing health services to a population of more than 600,000 in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. The hospital is a major cardiac center in Australia, offering complex cardiac care to adult and pediatric patients. More than 4,000 procedures are performed annually, including invasive and non-invasive cardiac catheterizations, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), and electrophysiology.

The hospital is part of Queensland Health, a cluster of nine tertiary-care facilities for the state of Queensland. Queensland Health has Agfa's IMPAX PACS installed in six of its tertiary care hospitals and several of its secondary care hospitals. Agfa's radiology information system (RIS) solution is being installed at multiple hospitals in the Queensland Health cluster.