Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)

One imaging hub. Cross-enterprise. Fully vendor-neutral.

Enterprise Imaging’s Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) simplifies your IT landscape and gives clinicians fast access to complete, high-quality imaging records across all sites, systems and specialties. Truly vendor-neutral, it accepts imaging content from AGFA solutions as well as third-party PACS and departmental systems, so you can evolve your ecosystem at your own pace.

Built on a modern, standards-based platform, it organizes and enriches clinical content across DICOM and non-DICOM data types, with on-premises and cloud storage options, and scales as your organization grows.

Modernize your imaging infrastructure

AGFA HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging VNA unifies all imaging data on a single platform, making management simpler and more cost-effective. Web-based tools centralize access, privacy and lifecycle controls, while support for all image sources and rich metadata provides seamless workflows across hospitals and networks. Integration with Enterprise Imaging, the XERO® Viewer and non-DICOM capture gives clinicians fast, reliable access to images wherever and whenever they need them.

Flexible and vendor-neutral, the VNA can consolidate imaging across departments and sites without replacing existing systems, supporting data from any PACS or source. Standards-based and modular, it lets you add new workflows as needs evolve, enabling regional strategies, future scalability and stepwise IT convergence.

Fully cloud-ready on AWS and delivered as a service (SaaS), the VNA eliminates storage forecasting and upfront capacity costs while keeping systems current, so IT teams can shift their focus from infrastructure management to supporting clinicians.

Advantages of the Vendor Neutral Archive

• Unified imaging for informed care: imaging from all PACS and locations in one place, so the care team sees the patient’s full imaging history; this may reduce radiation exposure by avoiding unnecessary repeat exams.
• Find images instantly: all images are curated and precisely tagged, making the right data quickly findable.
• Real-time collaboration: care teams can access images from anywhere, share insights and collaborate across specialties.
• Reduce costs, simplify imaging: centralized management, data protection and storage optimization with intelligent Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) tools.
• Imaging Health Record™: embedded in the EHR, the standards-based VNA gives clinicians one clear view of the full imaging history and the collaboration tools they need, without leaving their workflow.
• Imaging Health Network™: brings multiple IHRs, VNAs, PACS and other imaging systems into one converged view, with built-in shared reading for cross-enterprise collaboration.
• Scale and customization: unifies imaging data while supporting each department’s workflow, with a centralized architecture for regional and multi-site expansion.
• Secure access: advanced access controls and audit capabilities keep imaging data safe and confidential.

Fast, easy image and report access within your network

Healthcare systems generate multimedia content, such as endoscopy videos and medical photos for dermatology documentation, from many sources, not just DICOM modalities. A VNA brings all of these assets into a single, unified system, making them easy to access, share and preserve.

The Multi-Media Gateway brings hospital imaging beyond the directly connected modalities, such as medical videos, photos and even documents in their native format, into one workflow. It captures, curates and stores data efficiently in the Enterprise Imaging VNA, keeping patient records complete and up to date.

Clinical images and videos are captured, stored and managed in their original format, with system-level vendor neutrality ensured.

IHE-XDS enables secure, standards-based sharing of patient documents and images across different healthcare providers.

Optimize storage, maximize savings

With ILM, the storage, access and deletion of clinical data are managed intelligently. Optimized file formats, tiered storage and automated lifecycle rules lower costs without slowing access for care teams, automating every stage of imaging data from capture and archiving to regulatory-compliant deletion.

All DICOM and non-DICOM images are consolidated in one repository, with workflow integration, mobile capture support and the ability to scale to the cloud. Clinicians get fast access to the complete Imaging Health Record™ (IHR), including structured metadata and multimedia content across all sites, systems and specialties.

• All imaging, past and present, brought together in one connected view
• Rapid access to the images you need, from question to clinical decision without waiting
• Real-time teamwork, sharing studies and insights across departments and specialties
• A clear patient journey, with rich metadata, priors and multimedia in a complete imaging record

A flexible foundation for imaging IT

Build a unified imaging IT environment with the Enterprise Imaging VNA. Integrate imaging content from AGFA solutions as well as third-party PACS and departmental systems, consolidating data, supporting growth and simplifying management across the enterprise at your own pace, with no rip-and-replace required. Cloud or on-premises: your choice.

• Unified imaging data with fast, single-view access from anywhere and collaboration across specialties
• Every image, video and report centralized in one VNA that grows with your enterprise
• Unified imaging data that supports each department’s workflow, with centralized or federated architecture for regional and multi-site expansion
• On-premises and cloud options that scale with your organization while reducing complexity and cost

What customers say

“Because we are a teaching institution, all of our residents rotate working between ZSFG, University of California, San Francisco, and the Veterans Administration hospital. This means they deal with multiple different image management systems with different workflows and capabilities. We have gotten very good feedback on how our system compares to the others, especially from the people who tend to use a lot of the functionalities available.” Stanley Lee, Radiology and Enterprise PACS Administrator, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, USA

“This project is unique in Italy, not just for its geographical scale, but also for how deeply it’s integrated with the public healthcare ecosystem. AGFA HealthCare played a key role in making that a reality.” Ludovico Genco, Executive Director, SIRDImm project, InnovaPuglia, Italy