Vienna, Austria / WHIT 2007 (booth #801) - October 22, 2007 -
11:00 a.m. CET
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical
workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today that ORBIS(TM), the
company's Hospital Information System (HIS), has gone live at the Digestive
Surgery department of Purpan hospital. Purpan hospital is one of the
hospitals of the University Hospital Center of Toulouse (CHU or Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse), one of the top 5 hospitals in France.
The Digestive Surgery department is specialized in oesophagus, stomach,
pancreas, and liver surgery, counting 1270 operations in 2006. The University
Hospital Center of Toulouse, which is currently making preparations for the
certification visit of the High Authority of Health in September, 2008, has
chosen for ORBIS to fulfil one of its main priorities: the deployment of the
Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
The University Hospital Center is the fourth largest French
hospital in size with 614,800 outpatients and 179,900 inpatients recorded in
2006. With 2,791 beds, it serves the Midi-Pyrenees Area. All the personnel
at the hospital, some 7,000 staff members, are directly involved in the
deployment of ORBIS. The go-live of the solution includes the recovery of
medical and administrative histories since 2004. As of December of this year,
the Agfa HealthCare HIS will become the central access portal for the hospital's
healthcare units.
Mr. Yann Morvezen, Director Information Systems and Controlling
of the University Hospital Center of Toulouse, said: "Last year, the EPR
Committee, chaired by Mr. Franck Boutault, unanimously chose ORBIS as the most
suitable solution for our hospital. One of the main reasons for this
decision is the fact that ORBIS covers the whole patient clinical pathway:
admissions, medical record management, integration of medical history, care
record management, connections with various technical platforms, and the
medico-economic side, which is essential for activity-based management."
Professor Franck Boutault, Head of the Medical Information
Department and of the Face Plastic Surgery Department at Purpan hospital adds:
"We have decided to organise the deployment of the ORBIS solution in two phases,
that will be spread over 5 years. The first phase, which will last until 2009,
will be dedicated to the replacement of the various existing electronic medical
records. The second phase will relate to the care record and the electronic
prescription."
Philippe Blanco, Managing Director Agfa HealthCare France,
comments: "With over 750 installations of our ORBIS solution across Europe, Agfa
HealthCare has established itself as a leading healthcare IT player. As with
other installations, the success of this important project is based on a solid
co-operation between the University Hospital Center of Toulouse and Agfa
HealthCare. To help assure a smooth operational transition, Agfa
HealthCare will also provide the hospital with a high quality training and
coaching program as an integral part of its service."
About ORBIS
ORBIS enhances the quality of patient treatment and provides
fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and
data. Accurate patient data and histories will be available to authorized
nursing, technical and medical staff, allowing for quicker and better diagnoses
and treatments. To date, Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS has been successfully deployed
in over 750 institutions and has more than 450,000 daily users.
About CHU de Toulouse
The University Hospital Center of Toulouse groups various
hospitals that are situated in Toulouse: Purpan hospital, the Rangueil-Larrey
hospital, the Hôpital des Enfants, l'Hôpital Paule de Viguier, La
Grave-Casselardit hospital, and one hospital outside of Toulouse, namely La
Fontaine Salée, situated in Salies du Salat. The hospital's high-level
medical services cover most of the current and highly specialised medical
disciplines. The hospital group employs about 12,800 people. Some
160,000 inpatients and about 600,000 outpatients are treated in the various
hospitals of the group every year.
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