Project Migrates 600,000 Patient Data Files and 1,500 Cases to HIS/PACS

A major HIS and PACS project has recently been initiated in Europe.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium), a leading provider of information technology- (IT)-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging systems, has successfully installed its Orbis hospital information system (HIS), together with its picture archiving and communications system (PACS) Impax in the Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) in Austria.

Orbis is now operational after 18 months of preparation and serves 350 organizational units within the facility, including hospital wards, outpatient units, operating rooms, and specialist departments. In total, 600,000 patient records and findings have been effectively and securely migrated to the new system. 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. With its four hospitals, the Salzburger Landeskliniken provide for the entire federal state of Salzburg.

The system replaces a heterogeneous system landscape in the Salzburger Landeskliniken, and it makes patient data available at all times so that the data can be comprehensively and continuously communicated, documented, and evaluated. In two departments alone--discharge report compilation and diagnostic evaluation--the introduction of Orbis system has led to a decrease of the number of standard forms from 650 to 50. The multi-stage introductory process, devised by the SALKIS project team together with Agfa HealthCare, provides for the integration of all major 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 30,000 MB--about the equivalent of 8.4 million A4-format pages.


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