Philips Azurion
Azurion pays for itself within 1 year1
Is your current interventional system hindering your efficiency and patient care capabilities? Leverage the latest innovations in medical technology for high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare services. Discover how you can revolutionize your workflow, elevate your image-guided therapy experience, and realize cost savings and increased revenue potential with Philips Azurion.
Maximize efficiency and minimize costs: replace your system to unleash peak performance
By replacing your outdated system, you can unleash peak performance, significantly reduce patient and staff radiation exposure, and tackle complex procedures in one versatile lab. Azurion has been shown to support a 17% reduction in procedure time, leading to the treatment of one more patient per day, for a quick return on your investment.2
Advanced imaging technologies to reduce contrast dose
Table-side integration of IVUS, physiology and Azurion
Keep system up to date with included software & OS updates3
Demonstrated results
The Power of Azurion
Revolutionize your workflow and elevate your image-guided therapy experience
Efficient
Azurion platform designed to streamline workflow and improve patient care
Flexible
Enhanced flexibility and precise positioning in diverse procedures
Low Dose
Clinically proven low dose, high quality imaging
More time, more patients
Leverage the latest innovations in medical technology for high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare services.
Azurion – the heart of our solutions
Our Azurion Image Guided Therapy System allows you to perform a wide range of routine and complex interventional procedures easily and confidently with a unique user experience. The image guided therapy portfolio integrates imaging systems and software, with specialized diagnostic and therapeutic devices all controlled at table-side.
Philips Azurion 7 M20 with FlexArm
A revolutionary monoplane system that provides unlimited imaging flexibility for diverse procedures and exceptional positioning freedom for medical teams. With the flexibility and compact setup of the ceiling-mounted FlexArm stand, you have a cost effective environment ready for the procedures of the future. By working around you, this system helps you optimize your lab performance and provide superior care.
ClarityIQ technology – low dose and high imaging quality
When you replace your aging system with the latest Azurion platform you will have access to ClarityIQ – a clinically proven X-ray imaging technology that delivers significantly lower dose.8
Dynamic Coronary Roadmap – find your path
Find the right path and improve PCI outcomes. This Philips exclusive solution offers motion-compensated, real-time navigational guidance of coronary arteries and reduces contrast agent use by 28.8%.6
VesselNavigator
VesselNavigator allows reuse of 3D vascular anatomical information from existing CTA and MRA datasets as a 3D roadmap overlay on a live X-ray image. With its excellent visualization, VesselNavigator provides an intuitive and continuous 3D roadmap to guide you through vasculature.
With the Azurion system, we were able to change our workflow in such a way.... resulting in more patients per year, with no compromise to patient safety or quality of care.
Marco van Strijen
MD, Interventional Radiologist
St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht/Nieuwegein, the Netherlands
Frequently asked questions
Footnotes
- Assumes $14,876 revenue per procedure, based on average of Medicare 2025 payment schedule across hospital inpatient DRG codes for percutaneous cardiovascular procedures (MS-DRG 321,322,250,251). Assumes an extra procedure is performed 150-250 days per year, in consideration for variability in lab operating hours and staff availability. Treating one more patient a day, Philips Azurion Hospital Workflow Study - 4522 991 30501 - Nov 2017. Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions.
- Results from study conducted at St. Antonius Hospital. Results verified by NAMSA, independent third-party expert on study design and analytics. Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Philips whitepaper 12nc 4522 991 30501.
- During the term of the agreement, for a modality in scope Philips Technology Maximizer delivers an agreed number of major upgrades. Purchasing these upgrades individually could cost up to twice the cost of the Technology Maximizer agreement.
- For high-volume hospitals performing 2,500 procedures annually at a per procedure savings of $710 based on total time saved and $425 based on procedure time saved. Total cost savings calculation takes into account ~$1M for purchase of new interventional imaging system. Results from study conducted at St. Antonius Hospital. Results verified by NAMSA, independent third-party expert on study design and analytics. Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. The Azurion Workflow Study was used to obtain 3 different values for patient preparation (15 vs 13.2 minutes), procedure time (65 vs 53.95 minutes), and postprocedure lab time (20 vs 14.4 minutes). The totals for before and after Azurion are used for comparison. Philips Azurion Hospital Workflow Study - 4522 991 30507 - APR 2018.
- $38.50 Cost per minute is an average from Potter 2019 ($43.59 variable costs for TAVR procedures) and Childers 2018 ($20.40 direct costs for California hospitals); Values inflated to 2022 dollars using US Medical CPI from 2016 for Potter & 2014 for Childers. Cost per minute includes labor/staff and supplies that are not separately charged. It excludes anesthesia, blood products, pathology, diagnostic radiology, and the supplies separately charged in the supply department (e.g., stents, balloons). Potter BJ, Ann Thompson C. Cost of operating room time for endovascular transcatheter aortic valve replacement. J Med Econ. 2019;22(10):1022-1024. doi:10.1080/13696998.2019.1627364. Childers CP, Maggard-Gibbons M. Understanding Costs of Care in the Operating Room. JAMA Surg. 2018;153(4):e176233. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2017.6233 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Medical care consumer price index annual average 2014 through 2022, series name: medical care in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted.https://www.bls.gov/cpi/.
- Hennessey, B., et al., Dynamic Coronary Roadmap versus standard angiography for PCI RCT DCF4Contrast. EuroIntervention, 2024. 20(3): p. e198-e206.
- Buytaert, D., et al., Evaluation of patient and staff exposure with state of the art X-ray technology in cardiac catheterization: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2018. 31(6): p. 807-814. * Routine coronary interventions comprise of fluoroscopy and exposure usage. ** (95% CI of 53%, 77% for all diagnostic and interventional coronary procedures). The results of the application of dose reduction techniques will vary depending on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical location and clinical practice. The interventional cardiologist assisted by a physicist as necessary has to determine the appropriate settings for each specific clinical task. *** Results based on total dose area product from a single center prospective controlled randomized study (University Hospital Gent, Belgium) on 122 patients (42 for Allura Xper and 80 for AlluraClarity) undergoing coronary procedures. Of the 122 patients, 102 (83.6%) had a diagnostic procedure without intervention and 51 (41.8%) resulted in a diagnosis of no coronary disease. Patient radiation exposure was quantified using cumulative dose area product as collected from Radiation Dose Structured Reports and/or Allura Reports. Baseline dose was maintained by configuring both systems to power up with the lowest dose settings as default and default procedure settings for cardio were used. Exam duration and fluoro time was consistent between the systems and an increase in number of exposure images and runs with the AlluraClarity was attributed to the biplane configuration compared to the monoplane configuration of the Allura Xper.
- * Buytaert et al, Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2018. 31(6): p. 807-814. ** Söderman et al, Neuroradiology, 2013. 55(11): p.1365-1372.
- Determined via the COCIR SRI method. Compared to the Azurion's predecessor, the Allura Xper platform. Exact energy reduction figures depend on the configuration.
Disclaimer
Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.
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