Sampson Regional Medical Center (SRMC) installs Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS™ nursing clinical modules

Sampson Regional Medical Center, Clinton, North Carolina, USA

Situation

Sampson Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has been providing medical care to patients in Sampson County, North Carolina, for almost 60 years. The healthcare facility, which hosts 146 beds and a staff of 750, operates as three remote clinics to serve a community of more than 100,000 residents. When considering a new nursing system, SRMC wanted to choose a solution that would match its specific needs and that would continue to provide patients with the highest quality of care. The challenge was to build a new enterprise-wide information system that enhanced workflow and information management capabilities and improved efficiencies.

Solution

SRMC chose ORBIS™, Agfa HealthCare's award-winning Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) as its enterprise-wide IT solution. ORBIS enables community hospitals to manage clinical data and patient care through all departments, allowing SRMC's nurses and physicians to access patients' complete EMRs (Electronic Medical Record) regardless of the patient place of care. All authorized clinical staff can connect to a patient's medical record and view it real-time from anywhere within the organization or even from a remote clinic.

The solution is being implemented at SRMC in a three-phase approach. The first phase includes their nursing units. SRMC is currently installing modules that include nursing documentation, flow sheet charting, care planning, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), document management, order entry and results reporting. The remaining two phases of the implementation, which will include medication management and CPOE, is planned to take place over the course of the year. Once the implementation is complete, ORBIS will provide nursing staff and physicians with direct access to comprehensive critical patient diagnostic, care, and treatment information, offering care givers the tools necessary to provide quality and patient-centric care plans.

About ORBIS

ORBIS Care is the first component of Agfa HealthCare's European EMR solution made available to the US healthcare market. ORBIS offers a unique single database structure which integrates all administrative and clinical data. This allows users to update and access patient information in real-time - resulting in enhanced decision making and streamlined patient care. To date, Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS has been successfully deployed in over 850 institutions with more than 500,000 daily users worldwide.

There are over 80 modules within ORBIS that cut across the continuum of care from clinical, operational and administrative functions. In many cases, current users in Europe run their entire healthcare delivery operations with ORBIS. Agfa HealthCare first introduced ORBIS to the North American market in 2007. Agfa HealthCare has been meticulously localizing its solution to meet the needs of facilities in the United States and Canada. Based upon the results at Sampson, the first ORBIS project in North America, Agfa HealthCare will expand ORBIS installations and introduce additional individual modules to address other departments and other functions. Additionally, Agfa HealthCare plans to continue working with industry market leaders to provide complimentary services
and functionalities.

With a full range of standards-based informatics offerings, Agfa HealthCare transcends traditional barriers by providing a platform which enables a unified view of clinical data and services across the entire continuum of care. Whether ORBIS, the Enterprise Portal™ (EHR/EMR Viewer and Physician Portal,) IMPAXTM Scheduling (Enterprise Scheduling,) or XDS, Agfa HealthCare delivers a framework of tools and integrated applications that help to streamline healthcare delivery and transform it into a collaborative model and cost-effective business.