Salzburg hospital migrates 600,000 patient data files to Agfa's Orbis
17 September 2007
Agfa HealthCare has announced that it has successfully installed its Orbis
hospital information system (HIS) together with its Impax picture archiving
and communications system (PACS) in the Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) in
Austria.
The Salzburger Landeskliniken is the main hospital group in the Salzburg
region, counting over half a million ambulatory visits each year, and
employing 4,900 staff members. The new systems serve 350 organizational
units within the facility, including hospital wards, outpatient units,
operating theatres, and specialist departments. In total 600,000 patient
records and findings have been successfully and securely migrated to the new
solution.
In two departments alone — Discharge Report Compilation and Diagnostic
Evaluation — the introduction of ORBIS has led to a reduction of the number
of standard forms from 650 to 50.
Following a Europe-wide call for bids, the Salzburger Landeskliniken
opted for an Agfa HealthCare end-to-end IT-solution at the beginning of
2006. The multi-stage introductory process, devised by the so-called SALKIS
project team together with Agfa HealthCare, provides for the integration of
all key functional units, including the laboratories and numerous
subsystems. It also provides for the transition to digital documentation
updating over the next two years. The basic availability of all pivotal
functions has already been assured in the implementation stage which has now
been completed. As part of the large-scale project, a number of medical
imaging workstations and imaging systems have been integrated into the Agfa
HealthCare HIS. Training courses were provided for all relevant members of
hospital personnel. Each day, the SALK ORBIS system processes a data volume
of 30GB.
SALK Managing Director Dr. Max Laimböck said, "With the introduction of the
new hospital information Ssystem, the SALK has passed a major milestone on
the road to establishing itself as a state-of-the-art, process-oriented
healthcare organisation."
Marcus Theis, the HIS/PACS Project Manager added: "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 Agfa HealthCare, commented: "We
would like to congratulate the SALK team and our own personnel on the
excellent, on-time realisation of this large and challenging project."
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