AGFA HealthCare, a pioneer in imaging innovation for over a century, continues to drive advancements through its cutting-edge Enterprise Imaging Platform. With a firm commitment to technology excellence, we invest in the latest standards to ensure clinical confidence in our solutions. A key focus of our offering is interoperability, rooted in international healthcare standards. This supports seamless integration of our Enterprise Imaging (EI) Platform into diverse healthcare environments. AGFA HealthCare has been a proud participant in the IHE Connectathon since its inception in North America in 2000, reaffirming our leadership in interoperability.

In 2024, IHE introduced the prestigious “Connectathon Seal” – an international attestation validating a vendor’s high-quality implementation of international standards. We are proud to announce that our Enterprise Imaging Platform successfully tested four profiles at the European Connectathon, securing an IHE Connectathon seal for each.

• Integrating Reporting Applications (IRA): The IRA profile helps applications that are used together during radiology reporting (e.g., image display, report creator, clinical applications, AI tools, etc.) to share information using FHIRcast and FHIR Standards. Each application can share what it is doing and the data it is creating, referred to as Context and Content, respectively. Other applications are notified so they can then intelligently synchronize their behavior or use the new data to contribute to a diagnostic report.
• Web Image Access (WIA): The WIA Profile defines methods for image sharing and interactive viewing of imaging studies using RESTful services such as WADO-RS and QIDO-RS. A user, such as an enterprise viewer, can retrieve metadata about studies from a PACS, VNA, etc. and then it can retrieve the images and display to the user, all using RESTful services.
• Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA): The ATNA Profile specifies the foundational elements needed by all forms of secure systems: node authentication, user authentication, event logging (audit), and telecommunications encryption. It is also used to indicate that other internal security properties such as access control, configuration control, and privilege restrictions are provided.
• Consistent Time (CT): The CT profile ensures that the system clocks and time stamps of the many computers in a network are well synchronized. This profile specifies synchronization with a median error less than 1 second. This is sufficient for most purposes.

Outstanding performance from the team! We are delighted to receive this accreditation. Explore the full list of IHE profiles and actors supported by AGFA HealthCare’s solutions.