iSOFT Achieves Key LORENZO Milestone at St Jansdal Hospital

iSOFTiSOFT has installed LORENZO at the St Jansdal Hospital in The Netherlands as part of a regional Electronic Health Record (Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD)) project. LORENZO EPD viewer allows GPs operating in the community to view patient records as well as laboratory, radiology and pathology reports at the hospital at Harderwijk.

The LORENZO EPD viewer enables GPs to securely view records and reports in real-time via a conventional web browser. They can also retrieve radiology images from the hospitalÂ’s Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). GPs have direct entry to the relevant results of medical tests of their patients as recorded in the hospital and have faster access to more comprehensive information, so the quality of patient care can be greatly improved. The data accessible through the LORENZO EPD viewer is automatically synchronised with St Jansdal's general Hospital Information System, so all data is entered just once and is always up-to-date.

Currently, three GPs are using the viewer but the hospital intends to quickly extend to more GPs and also to hospital staff to access patient records at home. This is expected during the Autumn.

St Jansdal Hospital and iSOFT have also agreed to a further roll out of LORENZO at the hospital and local health economy. In migrating to LORENZO the hospital will become an early adopter and will have early access to new functionality and the latest LORENZO releases and benefit from its rich functionality. Initially, LORENZO will be deployed for clinical surgery to create a paperless office. This will utilise the patient management tools, results reporting, requesting and sophisticated clinical data capture functionality in the latest release.

"The LORENZO EPD viewer going live at St Jansdal Hospital, together with the commitment to the further roll-out, is an important milestone for iSOFT," said Gary Cohen, Executive Chairman and CEO of IBA Health, iSOFT's parent company. "It underlines iSOFT's position as a provider of innovative healthcare solutions. Solutions that enable healthcare institutions, specialists, GPs and pharmacists to collaborate more easily and efficiently leading to better care for patients."

St Jansdal Hospital wants to actively participate in the growing trend of patient-centred regional healthcare processes, which require seamless and efficient collaboration between all healthcare providers. In this respect accessibility and exchangeability of patients' records play a key role, as they allow optimum distribution of responsibilities among the participants.

The hospital wants to be a frontrunner in the development of regional healthcare ICT infrastructure and sees the introduction of the LORENZO EPD viewer as an important milestone. The decision to opt for iSOFT follows its success with iSOFT's current Electronic Health Record called MIRADOR. The hospital is committed to improving patient care using cutting-edge medical ICT solutions.

"We are happy to be able to disclose crucial patient data to the GPs in our region," said Wout Adema, member of the Board of Management of St Jansdal Hospital. "iSOFT has delivered a good solution of which we have high expectations. Now we will start working, together with iSOFT, on the further roll-out to GPs in the region and medical specialists, so that they can view the information from home. We will also look at further additions of functionality, such as order management and additional EPR functionality."

About LORENZO
LORENZO by iSOFT is an open-technology medical information system based on international standards such as Web Services, XML and HL7 V3, It represents the forefront of the next generation of workflow enabled, fully interoperable healthcare solutions designed for enterprise wide healthcare in support of the patient journey. Designed to work with existing systems, LORENZO's versatile design allows the solution to be incrementally extended in a number of ways to support the objectives of the enterprise. It can thus be equally well deployed in support of multi-disciplinary, regional care record sharing by GPs, hospital based, home and nursing home carers, as it can in a very focused and specialist tertiary care setting. The flexible architecture enables technological, organisational or regulatory changes to be implemented in a controlled manner.

The viewer, which is just one of one of LORENZO's currently available, innovative new components alongside Requesting, and Clinical Narrative tools, allows patients faster and easier access to primary healthcare information via their GP.

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About iSOFT
iSOFT, a subsidiary of the IBA Health Group. iSOFT has over 35 years of experience in the Dutch healthcare sector. The daily care of some 40 percent of all hospital beds in the Netherlands is entrusted to iSOFT. The company also has a leading position in the hospital pharmacy and general practice markets. iSOFT claims a significant role in care innovation by means of state-of-the-art ICT solutions. It has over 250 employees based in Leiden, Nieuwegein and Groningen. For more information, please visit www.isoft.nl.

About IBA Health Group
Australian public company IBA Health Limited (ASX-IBA) is a prominent player in the international healthcare information systems market. More than 13,000 healthcare institutions in 35 countries across five continents use IBA solutions to manage patient data and improve their core business processes. The IBA Health Group employs 3,500 medical ICT experts and has its own design and development centres. For more information, please visit www.ibahealth.com.

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