Leicester's hospitals select Orion Health

19 June 2007

Leicester's hospitals select Orion Health

New Zealand's leading software exporter, Orion Health has been chosen by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) to build a new document tracking solution to improve access and filing for over 7 million patient notes.

The Orion Health solution will allow clinicians to make requests electronically for patient notes, regardless of where the notes are stored.

The requests will be downloaded onto PDAs used by medical records staff in the library units. The PDAs will have bar code readers attached, allowing staff to electronically "check out" the notes as they are removed from the shelves.

The new system will reduce the time spent requesting, tracking and chasing case notes. Additional benefits of the new system include the ability to request patient notes 24 hours a day; standardisation of medical records processes across the hospitals in the Trust, and improved efficiency in storage space through the use of a 'random storage' system.

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About Orion Health

Orion Health is a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector.

Orion Health's easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health's Rhapsody integration engine, Concerto clinical portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.

Worldwide, Orion Health is implementing health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users. Orion Health's partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle Corporation and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including the New Zealand Ministry of Health, Auckland District Health Board, HealthAlliance, New South Wales and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

More information can be found at www.orionhealth.com.

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