AGFA HealthCare, a leading provider of healthcare imaging and IT solutions, is pleased to announce continued advancement of its cloud strategy in North America. The growth in its cloud business demonstrates the company's commitment to advancing healthcare through innovative technology.
GREENVILLE, S.C., March 6, 2024 (Newswire.com)
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Over the past 12 months, AGFA HealthCare has experienced an expansion in its cloud services, marking a significant milestone in its strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing accessibility, flexibility and efficiency for healthcare providers in North America.
Key project highlights of AGFA HealthCare's expanding cloud business in North America:
Secure and reliable storage of petabytes of medical imaging data in public clouds encompassing nearly 30 million studies and 5 billion images
Hosting Enterprise Imaging VNA and the #1 Best in KLAS, XERO® Viewer for both commercial and government health systems in the cloud
Full public cloud deployment of Enterprise Imaging Radiology, Enterprise Imaging VNA, and XERO® Universal Viewer
“We are thrilled to witness the remarkable growth of our cloud business, reflecting our ongoing commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower healthcare providers,” said Mark Burgess, President, North America, AGFA HealthCare. “The AGFA HealthCare Cloud Solution is designed for physician efficiency, so they can maximize their focus on patient demands and outcomes.”
The AGFA HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Cloud offering is being featured at leading industry events, such as HIMSS, highlighting its role in creating an Imaging Health Network ™ (IHN). Through the IHN, across facilities and sites, images are available to all members of the care team — no matter where they are, including on compatible mobile devices. Streaming from a longitudinal distributed health network can help reduce repeat imaging and assist decision-making. AGFA HealthCare previously announced it had joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) to scale up the global availability of AGFA Enterprise Imaging on the cloud.
Meet AGFA HealthCare enterprise consultants in Orlando at HIMSS24, where we will engage with IT innovators who can discover how our Enterprise Imaging Platform keeps the entire healthcare eco-system in flow: to multi-specialty physicians, IT specialists, management, and patients.
'Changing Life through Lenses' Program Provides Free Glasses to Patients in Need
DALLAS, June 28, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Good vision is a basic human right, but one in four schoolchildren in the U.S. has an undetected and untreated vision problem that can affect learning. The OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation partners with eye doctors around the country to help children in need see clearly so they can be successful in school and in life. To reach more students, this year the Foundation is encouraging eye doctors to 'Adopt-A-School' locally and enroll in Changing Life through Lenses® (CLTL). This program provides a complete pair of glasses including lenses, frames and lab services for patients in need at no cost to the practice or the patient.
Clear vision is critical for everyone
Eye doctors can use the Changing Life through Lenses program to provide free glasses to adults and children in need. Vision correction is especially important for kids — school-age children with an uncorrected vision problem can do worse in school and suffer from lower self-esteem than their peers who don't have vision impairments. To help bridge this gap, the Foundation suggests that eye doctors contact Title 1 schools to 'Adopt-A-School' in their community as these schools have a high number of low-income students who may not be able to access vision care. The Changing Life through Lenses website has resources eye doctors can use to identify and contact schools in their area. Optometrists can also rent portable exam equipment through CLTL to provide eye exams outside of their practice.
"I had a student who received glasses from the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation," school nurse Verby Nash shares. "When she got them, she was smiling and in awe of what she could see. She described everything she had been missing all this time. Kids with vision issues start to accommodate and they don't realize what they are missing until they have an eye exam and get glasses."
Filling a need in the U.S. and around the world
In the U.S., there are people in need around the country whose lives can be changed with a pair of glasses. Eye doctors who provide charitable vision care services are called to be that change. Changing Life Through Lenses makes it easy for doctors to start or increase their charitable activities to make a difference in their community. Eye doctors in the U.S. who pledge to provide vision care through the CLTL 'Adopt-A-School' program may also be invited to participate in a Foundation-led vision clinic.
"Our Changing Life Through Lenses 'Adopt-A-School' campaign equips eye doctors across the U.S. to support underserved students in their own communities," said Becky Palm, Executive Director, OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation North America. "We're inspired by the generous doctors who work to ensure vision care is accessible to local patients in need, and it's our goal to amplify their charitable work by providing free glasses to the individuals they help."
Around the world, uncorrected poor vision affects 2.7 billion people and 90% of them live in developing communities. Thanks to EssilorLuxottica's commitment to helping eliminate uncorrected poor vision in a generation, the global Foundation has eight regional affiliates in Africa, ASEAN, Europe, Greater China, India, Italy, North America and Oceania that are dedicated to this mission. Since 2013, the Foundation has had a tremendous impact worldwide, providing 623 million people with access to sustainable vision care and helping correct and/or protect the vision of 61 million people. Additionally, OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation is a founding partner of 'One School at a Time,' a program of 'Berkeley Vision - Every Child Sees.'
The North America affiliate of the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, registered in the United States. This regional affiliate supports the goals of the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, a French registered charitable organization (endowment fund) reflecting the commitment and values of EssilorLuxottica to contribute to eliminating uncorrected poor vision in a generation. It is headquartered at 147 rue de Paris, 94220 Charenton-Le-Pont, France. https://onesight.essilorluxottica.com/
Contact Information:
Amy Greene
Media Relations, OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation [email protected]
513-404-1376
