Rangauklinik Ansbach introduces Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS(TM) in Rehab Center

 

Mortsel, Belgium / Bonn, Germany - September 18, 2007 - 11:00 CET

 

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today it is currently introducing its ORBIS (TM) Hospital Information System (HIS) in the Rangauklinik Ansbach, near Nuremberg, in southern Germany. ORBIS will be used in the clinic's Medical Rehabilitation Center, which provides 64 beds for rehab patients and 90 for acute cases. The Rangauklinik, which is part of the Neuendettelsau Deaconry, is the third facility of the hospital group to introduce ORBIS. The Hospital Information System will help to further integrate the different hospitals in the organization.

 

The Neuendettelsau Deaconry Group opted for Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS Hospital Information System (HIS) in order to meet the complex demands involved in running its various clinics. As Dr. Markus Horneber, Chief Administrative Director of the Deaconry explains: "We have been ORBIS customers from the earliest days. This powerful, unified IT solution enables us to provide optimal support for our highly motivated personnel in their everyday work situations, and to maintain a process of ongoing improvement for our patients. We will be carrying on this successful collaboration with Agfa HealthCare in the years ahead, to ensure that we are ideally equipped for future challenges in the medical sector."

 

Mark A. Hoffmann, Agfa HealthCare Sales Manager Germany, adds: "Since the hospital market is highly complex and subject to constant change, the critical factors for success are top quality, on-time implementation, and smoothly functioning processes. The fact that the Neuendettelsau Deaconry - which places very special demands on an end-to-end hospital information system - has again opted for ORBIS, is a further endorsement of our reputation of being a powerful and reliable partner for hospital personnel and management."

 

 

 

The Neuendettelsau Deaconry is the largest Protestant social welfare organization in Bavaria, with 6,000 employees and 120 care and welfare facilities. It provides housing and jobs for the mentally disabled, runs homes for the elderly (with accommodation for about 2,200), maintains 32 schools with over 4,000 pupils, and operates five hospitals. Its range of welfare services also includes day care centers for children, guesthouses, conference centers, an International Academy (DiaLog), several firms and church-based workshops, e.g. for the production of eucharistic wafers and paraments (textile works of art for churches). The Deaconry also runs schools and homes for senior citizens in other European countries, for example Poland and Romania; its care of the elderly extends to various pilot projects, such as the Dementia Competence Center in Nuremberg's Tilly Park district. Further information about the Neuendettelsau Deaconry is available in the internet at http://www.diakonieneuendettelsau.de and www.diamed-kliniken.de

 

 

Since January 1, 2007, the Rangauklinik Ansbach has been part of the Neuendettelsau Deaconry, the largest Protestant social welfare organization in Bavaria, which took over the clinic from the German Pension Fund (Upper and Central Franconia). The Deaconry, which has some 6,000 employees on its payroll, has been engaged in welfare work with hospitals, disabled persons, the elderly, schools, and young persons for more than 150 years. It also operates the Clinic Neuendettelsau, the Cnopf'sche Children's Clinic, and the Hallerwiese Gynecological Hospital.

 

 

 

Walter Schäfer
Manager MarCom D-A-CH Agfa HealthCare
T +49 (0)228 26 68 27 19
walter.schaefer@agfa.com

 

Frederique Depraetere
Global PR Manager Agfa HealthCare
T +32 (0)3 444 80 06
frederique.depraetere@agfa.com

 

Johan Jacobs
Corporate Press Relations Manager Agfa-Gevaert NV
T +32 (0)3 444 80 15
johan.jacobs@agfa.com