Agfa HealthCare announced that it has succesfully installed ORBIS in its Italian pilot site, the Italian Malzoni Hospital (Clinica Medica Malzoni) in Avellino, one of the hospitals of the Malzoni Hospital Group (Gruppo Malzoni). ORBIS is Agfa HealthCare's leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), that manages the entire patient-centric information flow through all hospital departments. The system allows for the enhancement of the quality of patient care by giving fast access to all patient records, including images and data. These records are made available to authorised staff, allowing for quicker and better diagnoses and treatment. As ORBIS contributes to the implementation of workflow-based clinical paths, linked to the related administrative processes, the system also plays a key role in the improvement of efficiency in the hospital sector.
During the first installation phase in the Malzoni Hospital Group, which started 5 months ago and has now successfully been brought to an end, four ORBIS modules (Master Data & Security, Ward Graphic, Medical Documentation and Order Entry & Result Reporting) were installed in the Obstetric-Gynaecology department of the Malzoni Hospital Group. The department, counting 90 beds in 2 different sites, has been working with the system for about one month now. In the second project phase, the Agfa HealthCare HIS will be rolled out to the other wards of the hospital, the Laboratory Information System (LIS) of the hospital group will be interfaced and Agfa HealthCare's RIS/PACS (Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System) will be implemented. In the third and final phase of the project other clinical modules of ORBIS will be implemented as well.
The Malzoni Hospital Group, one of the largest private healthcare groups in the South of Italy and a user of Agfa HealthCare's CR solutions (Computed Radiography), directly or indirectly controls over 500 inpatient beds and a series of outpatient facilities in the Campania region. For the group, the key reason to choose Agfa HealthCare as a strategic hospital IT partner, was the conceptual design of the core system of ORBIS. It is inherently based on processes, with macro- and micro-workflows and functions that can be tailored to the specific needs of its hospitals. The group now has the possibility of creating control nodes for its key processes, resulting in direct traceability and accountability of all decisions and interventions. An additional reason for the hospital group to opt for ORBIS is that the core system can be easily connected to all existing departmental systems currently in use in the group. Finally, ORBIS' installed base, with 400,000 daily users in 750 hospital sites throughout Europe, has also contributed to the group's preference for Agfa HealthCare.
"Agfa HealthCare's HIS offers us traceability and full documentation of all medical acts in our hospitals," Mr. Antonio Pernice, Managing Director of the Malzoni Group, stated. "It also enables us to easily analyse the response times and draw our attention in case of organizational bottlenecks. This is extremely important for us. The information system provides us with immediate feedback, in that way enabling us to permanently fine-tune our current processes," Mr. Pernice continued.
"With this project, Agfa HealthCare for the first time provides an Italian hospital group with a complete integrated platform in which clinical, administrative and workflow-oriented systems converge in a patient-centric form," Ruggero Lietti, Agfa HealthCare Cluster Manager Italy & Greece, added. "With ORBIS, the Malzoni Group will be able to introduce the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) throughout the hospital group."
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 film related products 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 3,308 million Euro in 2005.
Agfa HealthCare supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-art systems for the capturing, processing and managing of diagnostic images and with IT solutions that integrate information and imaging workflows into the overall hospital operations across departmental disciplines. Agfa HealthCare is a leader in the fast growing market of IT systems that span the entire healthcare enterprise and through which healthcare facilities become more efficient and effective, with improved patient outcomes.
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About ORBIS
ORBIS enhances the quality of patient treatment and provides fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and data. Accurate patient data and histories will be available to authorized nursing, technical and medical staff, allowing for quicker and better diagnoses and treatments.
About the Malzoni Hospital Group (Gruppo Malzoni)
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