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2006-03-20 News Headlines
Agfa HealthCare launches
first integrated IT solution for Belgian hospitals
Agfa HealthCare announces a series of pilot projects for ORBIS, a comprehensive
enterprise healthcare IT solution, in three Belgian hospitals.
With these pilot projects, Agfa becomes the first in its field to provide
Belgian hospitals with an integrated platform in which clinical and administrative
and workflow oriented systems converge in a patient-centric form. Three
hospitals - Imelda, Bonheiden; Bois de l'Abbaye, Seraing; and AZ Groeninge,
Kortrijk -- will be the first sites to implement ORBIS in Belgium.
ORBIS is made up of over 70 modules which manage information and workflows
for healthcare delivery, including admission, diagnosis, treatment, financial,
billing and logistics. ORBIS, designed by doctors and nurses, adapts the
entire clinical workflow to the needs of individual hospitals and aids
healthcare professionals in decision-making by providing real-time access
to information, images, statistics and benchmark practices. Hospitals
which have implemented ORBIS improve patient care and hospital efficiency,
as proven by more than 700 installations across Europe where ORBIS is
used daily by 400,000 medical professionals.
"Healthcare in Belgium is very complex, with different languages,
cultures and a multi-faceted healthcare system. ORBIS is successfully
operational in Germany and Austria and will soon in be implemented in
France where Agfa already has a significant customer base for enterprise
systems. Implementing ORBIS in the multi-cultural Belgian healthcare environment
with an experience on practical implementation of clinical pathways, will
demonstrate its appropriateness for hospitals around the world,"
explains Philippe Houssiau, President, Agfa HealthCare.
The start of the pilot phase is scheduled for the end of 2006. In Belgium,
ORBIS will be commercially deployed in 2007.
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 graphics industry, the healthcare sector and
specific industrial applications. Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel,
Belgium. The company is active 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's HealthCare business group 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 the
imaging workflow into the overall hospital operations across departmental
disciplines.
In addition, Agfa 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.
Orbis is a comprehensive enterprise healthcare solution providing a true
continuum of care, addressing the need of all clinical disciplines. ORBIS
manages & monitors all patient-oriented processes: medical, nursing,
administrative, and business, in an approach that crosses the workflow
chasm between acute and ambulatory care.
. Over 700 installations across Europe
. Over 400,000 daily users
. Not one single replacement in the last 10 years
* 1US$ = 0.804281 Euro
Agfa, the Agfa rhombus and ORBIS are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Belgium or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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