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Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has signed over 40 new agreements for its leading Hospital/Clinical Information System ORBIS since January 2009. ORBIS, available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg is a hospital-wide IT solution which manages and monitors all patient-oriented processes: medical, nursing, administrative and business. ORBIS is an enterprise-wide solution designed to enhance the quality of patient care and provides fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and clinical and administrative data. The permanent availability of this information to authorized nursing, technical and medical staff, enables quicker diagnoses and treatments. ORBIS is designed to help care facilities increase productivity, improve the delivery of care and save cost.
New agreements for ORBIS in 2009 include local, regional and university care and hospital centers. In France agreements were recently signed with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Mans, the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, and the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil. In Belgium and Luxembourg, the ZOL Genk hospital and St. Lucas hospital in Ghent have begun implementation of the new system, and agreements were signed with the Centre Hospitalier Emilie Mayrisch in Luxembourg. New agreements with leading care facilities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland include the St. Theresien Hospital in Mannheim (Germany), the SLK group in Heilbronn (Germany), the Hera nursing home in Vienna (Austria) and the Appenzell Hospital in Appenzell (Switzerland).
Agfa HealthCare has also signed several major agreements for its ORBIS Document Management System, also known as HYDMedia, such as with the University Hospital of Leipzig in Germany.
"Agfa HealthCare's IT Division has continued to successfully achieve its planned growth in 2009 and has, as a result, re-enforced its leading European HIS/CIS position in the market. The success of the solution is, in part, based on our continued drive to deliver new and innovative solutions for ORBIS, including new clinical applications and the interface certification by SAP," states Dr. Volker Wetekam, Vice President IT Division, Agfa HealthCare. "We look forward to a successful full year result for ORBIS and further growth in the years to come."
Today some 850 customers in Europe work with ORBIS, totaling over 500,000 users which include clinicians, nurses, hospital management, administrative and technical staff.
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare) and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,032 million Euro in 2008.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. The HealthCare division has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2008 were 1,223 million Euro.
For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfa.com/healthcare.