Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has signed an agreement with the Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL - Eastern Limburg Hospital Group) for the installation of its ORBIS Care solution at all of its three sites. ORBIS Care is Agfa HealthCare's leading nursing management system, providing workflow solutions for, amongst others, nursing documentation, planning of nursing activities and automatically deriving nursing scores (VG-MZG). ORBIS Care will replace ZOL's current paper-based workflow. Moreover, ORBIS Care is fully integrated in Agfa HealthCare's Electronic Medical Record including prescription solutions for medication, lab tests and radiology exams.
The Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) is a dynamic regional three-site hospital facility serving the eastern area of the Limburg province in Belgium. It was established in 1995 when five care facilities fused to form a regional care center. ZOL counts 814 beds and employs over 2500 staff members and 200 doctors. Besides its regional function, ZOL also provides a number of specialized medical services, including heart surgery and neuro surgery facilities and expertise and a fertility center, amongst others.
"After being given an extensive demonstration on the system's capabilities, it was clear that ORBIS was the solution of choice for ZOL," states Bart Claes, ICT Manager, Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg. "We look forward to replacing our existing and rather complex paper-based order system with an efficient, streamlined and effective solution that will benefit both staff, clinicians and patients by enabling us to work more quickly, efficiently and effectively."
Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS Hospital/Clinical Information System enhances the quality of patient care and provides fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and data. Accurate real-time patient data and histories will be available to authorized nursing, technical and medical staff, allowing for quicker and more efficient diagnoses and treatments.
Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS solution is currently installed in over 800 care facilities in Germany, France and Belgium, counting over 500,000 daily users.
"The installation of ORBIS at ZOL is an important milestone in the roll-out of one of Europe's leading HIS/CIS solutions," states Koen Van Damme, Business Unit Manager ORBIS, Agfa HealthCare, "Our proven solution is currently being used by over half a million medical specialists and care providers and is the basis for enabling hospitals to integrate their information flows, align work processes and boost overall efficiencies. We look forward to a fruitful co-operation with ZOL Genk today and in the future".
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,755 million euro in 2009.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2009 were 1,178 million euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfahealthcare.com.