Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with Montpellier CHRU for the installation of its leading Hospital/Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS across its seven facilities.
Montpellier CHRU is one of France's leading care facilities with seven institutions providing a full spectrum of healthcare. As an academic hospital, it provides critical care, teaching and research services. It is the country's fifth largest University Hospital and has 3,000 beds. Montpellier CHRU employs 9000 staff members. CHRU is a key healthcare player in France, with an international reputation, it ranks fourth in the Le Point 2005-2009 overview of leading facilities in France and ranked 7th in the AERES (Agence d'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur) 2009 rankings for its medical research capabilities.
Under the terms of this agreement, the Montpellier CHRU will become the showcase in France for Agfa HealthCare's patient information solutions and will be a key reference site. "This new agreement and the partnership are of strategic importance to Agfa HealthCare, not only on the national level but, thanks to the prominence of the CHRU, on an international level as well," says Philippe Blanco, Managing Director of Agfa HealthCare France.
Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS patient information system will enable information exchanges in real time between all specialists and nursing staff involved throughout the patient care process. The introduction of the solution is part of a larger project to further streamline and improve the facilities' operations.
The project foresees the use of some of the most powerful business intelligence tools to achieve this. This solution (ORBIS), customized for data traceability and collection (formalization and analysis of protocols), will also allow the Montpellier CHRU to develop medical research.
"We will increase the efficiency of the Montpellier CHRU through more rigorous management of our healthcare provision. Our partnership with Agfa HealthCare is therefore truly strategic," states Mr. Manville, Managing Director of the Montpellier CHRU.
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and information technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures, and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa has its headquarters in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is active in 40 countries, and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. Agfa achieved a turnover of 3.032 billion Euros in 2008.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing, processing and printing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. The company has over a century of experience in diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer in the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2008 were approx. 1.223 billion Euros.
About the Montpellier CHU
The Montpellier university hospital is comprised of several institutions situated in Montpellier: the Lapeyronie hospitals, Arnaud de Villeneuve, Saint Eloi, Gui de Chauliac, La Colombière, the Bellevue healthcare centre for the elderly and the Antonin Balmès clinical gerontology center.