Agfa HealthCare announces that the St. Vincenz Hospital in Limburg, Germany, is replacing its existing hospital information system (HIS) with Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS. In addition, the company's HYDMedia document management system (DMS) will replace the existing digital archive.
The St. Vincenz Hospital is a tertiary care hospital with 477 beds serving approximately 19,000 inpatients and 25,000 outpatients annually.
Hospital needs a comprehensive solution across the campus
"Our existing solution is being discontinued by the vendor, and the subsequent version is not attractive, in our view. The cost-benefit ratio just isn't right," describes Klaus-Werner Szesik, Managing Director of St. Vincenz Hospital. "Our goal is to optimize our internal processes and to establish, across the campus, IT-supported workflows using a comprehensive solution. In the mid-term, we plan to stop using paper records and become fully digital. Furthermore, we expect the new HIS to help us optimize billing in the outpatient and inpatient departments."
ORBIS supports hospital goals
ORBIS supports these goals through its integrated financial accounting and effortless implementation of cost unit accounting. Thanks to the many functions in ORBIS, the hospital needs to create fewer interfaces with specialized systems, while at the same benefiting from a high degree of design flexibility to custom-tailor the system to its needs. In addition, the system has already achieved a high degree of acceptance on the part of the medical staff. "Last but not least, the fact that Agfa HealthCare is a well-established and strong partner, with high visibility in the market, safeguards the security of our investment," highlights Klaus-Werner Szesik.
The St. Vincenz Hospital in Limburg is rolling out ORBIS in all departments (except materials management). The transition will take place on 1 July 2011. In a second phase, Agfa HealthCare's radiology information system (RIS) will be implemented in the department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology.
User-friendly and open to external users
"For our hospital, ORBIS is the optimal solution because it represents the real patient workflows seamlessly. Furthermore, the system's appeal is enhanced by its user-friendly user interface and its openness towards external users. For example, we can easily increase the loyalty of general practitioners who act as referrers by using a portal solution. Last but not least, we plan to introduce digital rounds in the wards; ORBIS provides the best platform for that," summarizes Klaus-Werner Szesik.
Fully integrated clinical information system
"By choosing ORBIS and HYDMedia, the St. Vincenz Hospital in Limburg is backing up its future-oriented approach towards the comprehensive optimization of processes, which can only be achieved with the support by a fully integrated clinical information system. We are pleased to be able to count such an innovative hospital among our customers," says Michael Strüter, Head of Sales, Agfa HealthCare IT D-A-CH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
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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 2,948 million euro in 2010.
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 2010 were 1,180 million euro. For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit www.agfahealthcare.com.