Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, will be showcasing ORBIS, its innovative and comprehensive hospital-wide clinical and administrative information system at EHI Live 2010, 8-9 November, NEC, Birmingham. The solution was first shown to UK in 2007 and is, today, released in the United Kingdom.
- ORBIS is a proven EPR solution: 500,000 daily users.
- ORBIS integrates with the hospital's existing infrastructure and can be rolled out at the hospital's own pace.
- The solution is designed around the work habits of clinicians and staff.
Enterprise-wide EPR supports decision-making and patient care
ORBIS has been designed to provide hospitals and healthcare organizations with an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution. All-in-all, ORBIS addresses the needs of the entire healthcare enterprise, including Registration, Scheduling, Order Management, ePrescribing, Results Reporting, Synopsis and Clinical Documentation including Electronic Discharge Letters. The new suite of solutions will include ancillary clinical disciplines such as Therapy Services, Nursing Management, A&E, Theatre Management and Logistics all within a single solution. The single database structure in ORBIS allows users to update and consolidate patient information in real-time, allowing for informed decision making and more streamlined patient care.
Piece-meal implementation grows at hospital's own pace
Based on a core platform, Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS is designed to be modular, enabling hospitals and care organizations of all sizes to introduce the solution in a piece-meal fashion by selecting only specific modules to meet particular needs or gaps at a specific time. The solution can be rolled out further at the hospital's discretion and within the scope of its budget. This enables the facility to continue to function effectively in its day to day operations and allows hospitals to spread the implementation costs across a longer period of time.
Patient-centric solution proven in more than 900 sites, with 500,000 daily users
ORBIS has already successfully been deployed in more than 900 sites in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium, with more than 500,000 daily users. Thanks to its patient-centric workflow, ORBIS facilitates the administrative tasks of both medical and nursing staff. With this solution, Agfa HealthCare offers users the possibility of having an integrated EPR that provides an all-encompassing view of clinical as well as administrative information processes.
Fits into the existing way of working of clinicians and administrative staff
"Agfa HealthCare has designed ORBIS to meet the specific needs and demands of hospitals and healthcare organizations, with a strong focus on enabling the design of workflows around clinicians and administrative staff, and not the other way around", states Grant Witheridge, General Manager of Agfa HealthCare UK. "That also means that we have gone to great lengths to design a very extensive EPR solution which covers a majority of hospital needs, both clinical and administrative, but can be implemented in a piece-meal fashion."
A unique solution, designed to custom-fit the hospital
"Agfa HealthCare has decided to launch ORBIS onto the UK market at this point in time because we strongly believe that not only our solution, but also our approach to EPR implementation and roll-out, is significantly different from what has been done in the past", explains Volker Wetekam, Executive Vice President of the IT Division at Agfa HealthCare. "With nearly 20 years of healthcare IT and nearly 100 years of overall healthcare experience, we have learned that by enabling care organizations to implement solutions at their own pace, within the scope of their own budgets, we can deliver a better solution designed for the hospital, and not forced around it. The additional benefit is also that it enables healthcare organizations to work with our solutions and convince themselves of the benefits of the larger system over time. It is a win-win scenario."
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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.