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Agfa-Gevaert (EBR:AGFB) ORBIS(TM) Clinical Information System to be deployed progressively at AP-HP's 37 hospitals Paris, France/Mortsel, Belgium- September 30, 2008 - 12:30 CET Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today that it has won a contract to install its ORBIS(TM) solution at 37 hospitals France, belonging to the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) group. The project, worth 95 million Euros, is regarded as one of the most ambitious deployments of a healthcare IT solution in Europe, as AP-HP admits more than one million hospitalized patients per year along with five million outpatients, and has a capacity of around 23,000 beds in the Ile de France region and an additional three facilities outside that region. To bring this project to a successful conclusion, Agfa HealthCare will manage a consortium of three other companies: Cap Gemini, HP and Oracle.
"I am very pleased with this cooperation, which will result in a significant improvement in the management and care of patients," says Benoit Leclercq, Managing Director of the AP-HP.
"We are very proud to have been selected for this ambitious project," states Christian Reinaudo, President of Agfa HealthCare. "We are eager to build a strong and long-term partnership with AP-HP. To meet their expectations, we have put together a solid, multidisciplinary team in order to make the implementation of this project one of our most successful to date."
ORBIS has already been successfully installed in more than 800 institutions across continental Europe, serving more than 500,000 users daily. Thanks to its patient-centered workflow, ORBIS facilitates the administrative tasks of medical teams and nursing staff. With ORBIS, Agfa HealthCare offers users the possibility of having an integrated Electronic Patient Record that covers all the needs of the institutions for clinical information management, management of prescriptions, scheduling and medical documentation.
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's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,283 million Euro in 2007.
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 and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. The HealthCare division has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2007 were 1,392 million Euro, accounting for 43% of total group sales. In 2007 Agfa HealthCare's Research & Development expenses amounted to 106 million Euro.
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About AP-HP, France L'Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris is a public health organization serving the City of Paris. With missions addressing care, teaching, medical research, prevention, health education and urgent medical assistance, it constitutes the university hospital of Ile-de-France. It carries out all kinds of diagnostic and therapeutic activities: all of the medical specialties, organized around 52 medical, biological and "mixed" disciplines are represented. It also comprises five general services, including a pharmaceutical establishment (Ageps). It is associated with seven medical, two odontology and two pharmacy faculties. The AP-HP is made up of 37 hospitals and hospital groups and Home Hospitalization, geographically organized since June 2003 into the four university hospital groups (GHU): North, East, South and West. These GHUs make it possible to organize coherent care that is adapted to the medical needs of each health region in harmony with the other partner hospitals.
