Agfa HealthCare to showcase leading Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution ORBIS at EHI Live 2010

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it will be showcasing ORBIS, its innovative and comprehensive hospital-wide clinical and administrative information system at EHI Live 2010, 8-9 November, NEC, Birmingham. The solution was first shown to UK in 2007 and is, today, released in the United Kingdom.

• ORBIS is a proven EPR solution: 500,000 daily users.
• ORBIS integrates with the hospital's existing infrastructure and can be rolled out at the hospital's own pace.
• The solution is designed around the work habits of clinicians and staff.

Enterprise-wide EPR supports decision-making and patient care

ORBIS has been designed to provide hospitals and healthcare organizations with an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution. All-in-all, ORBIS addresses the needs of the entire healthcare enterprise, including Registration, Scheduling, Order Management, ePrescribing, Results Reporting, Synopsis and Clinical Documentation including Electronic Discharge Letters. The new suite of solutions will include ancillary clinical disciplines such as Therapy Services, Nursing Management, A&E, Theatre Management and Logistics all within a single solution. The single database structure in ORBIS allows users to update and consolidate patient information in real-time, allowing for informed decision making and more streamlined patient care.

Piece-meal implementation grows at hospital’s own pace

Based on a core platform, Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS is designed to be modular, enabling hospitals and care organizations of all sizes to introduce the solution in a piece-meal fashion by selecting only specific modules to meet particular needs or gaps at a specific time. The solution can be rolled out further at the hospital's discretion and within the scope of its budget. This enables the facility to continue to function effectively in its day to day operations and allows hospitals to spread the implementation costs across a longer period of time.

Patient-centric solution proven in more than 900 sites, with 500,000 daily users

ORBIS has already successfully been deployed in more than 900 sites in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium, with more than 500,000 daily users. Thanks to its patient-centric workflow, ORBIS facilitates the administrative tasks of both medical and nursing staff. With this solution, Agfa HealthCare offers users the possibility of having an integrated EPR that provides an all-encompassing view of clinical as well as administrative information processes.

Fits into the existing way of working of clinicians and administrative staff

"Agfa HealthCare has designed ORBIS to meet the specific needs and demands of hospitals and healthcare organizations, with a strong focus on enabling the design of workflows around clinicians and administrative staff, and not the other way around", states Grant Witheridge, General Manager of Agfa HealthCare UK. "That also means that we have gone to great lengths to design a very extensive EPR solution which covers a majority of hospital needs, both clinical and administrative, but can be implemented in a piece-meal fashion."

A unique solution, designed to custom-fit the hospital

"Agfa HealthCare has decided to launch ORBIS onto the UK market at this point in time because we strongly believe that not only our solution, but also our approach to EPR implementation and roll-out, is significantly different from what has been done in the past", explains Volker Wetekam, Executive Vice President of the IT Division at Agfa HealthCare. "With nearly 20 years of healthcare IT and nearly 100 years of overall healthcare experience, we have learned that by enabling care organizations to implement solutions at their own pace, within the scope of their own budgets, we can deliver a better solution designed for the hospital, and not forced around it. The additional benefit is also that it enables healthcare organizations to work with our solutions and convince themselves of the benefits of the larger system over time. It is a win-win scenario."