Austrian hospital group migrates to Orbis

The Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) hospital group, Austria, has implemented its new Agfa HealthCare Orbis health information system as part of its electronic patient record (EPR) project.

The group recently switched to the Agfa HealthCare Orbis and Impax picture archiving and communications (PACS) solution to enable patient data to be available at all times and allow for comprehensive and continuous communication, documentation and evaluation.

The Orbis system now serves 350 organisational units within the facility – including hospital wards, outpatient units, operating theatres, and specialist departments – and has led to a reduction in the number of standard forms from 650 to 50. During the course of the project 60,000 patient data files and 1,500 cases were migrated.

“We have selected Agfa HealthCare’s solutions on the basis of three key factors: firstly its holistic, process-based product approach, secondly, the outstanding user-friendliness of the user interface, and finally the positive experience reported by a number of hospitals using Orbis," SALK managing director Dr. Max Laimböck said.

He added: “With the introduction of the new hospital information system, the SALK has passed a major milestone on the road to establishing itself as a state of the art, process oriented healthcare organisation.”

Working in conjunction with Agfa HealthCare, SALK ensured the new system would allow integration of all key functional units, including the laboratories and numerous subsystems.

It also allows transition to digital documentation updating over the next two years. The availability of all pivotal functions has already been assured in the now completed implementation stage.

As part of the large scale project, a number of medical imaging workstations and imaging systems have been integrated into Orbis.

Training courses were provided for all relevant members of staff. Each day, the Agfa Orbis system at SALK processes a data volume of 30,000 MB – roughly the equivalent of 8.4 million A4-format pages.

Marcus Theis, the HIS/PACS project manager said: “A project of this magnitude represents an immense challenge for all the parties involved. We are extremely grateful for the excellent collaboration with our personnel in the various hospital departments as well as with our partners at Agfa HealthCare.”

Andrea Fiumicelli, executive vice president of Agfa HealthCare, added: “We would like to congratulate the SALK team and our own personnel on the excellent, on-time realisation of this large and challenging project.

“We have again demonstrated that when major organisations in the healthcare sector require a reliable provider of workflow and imaging systems for hospitals or clinics, they need to look no further than the market leading solutions of Agfa HealthCare.”

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