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Making hospital workflows efficientHealthcare News | October 1, 2009
Hospital da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, managed to integrate the hospital information system Soarian® Clinicals with Soarian Scheduling and the radiology information system (RIS) syngo® Workflow (MLR), which in turn manages the workflow in the radiology across the modalities and the PACS, syngo Imaging. In addition, the cardiology IT system syngo Dynamics is integrated into the imaging workflow.
The integration of orders into a scheduling system is essential to making hospital workflows more efficient and viable for the end-users. Order integration helps patients arrive at their medical appointments on time, and helps ensure that any changes in the timetable are communicated to all providers. Therefore, patient waiting times are decreased and utilization of modalities can be maximized.
Keeping patients at the center of care with the best of breeds
More than a traditional health information system, Soarian Clinicals is designed with a workflow orientation that helps hospitals manage not only transactions and data, but also the process of healthcare and the interactions between members of the healthcare community. Soarian Clinicals helps drive and direct workflow processes to reduce handoffs and promote standardization for more measurable and predictable outcomes, enabling clinicians to focus on care delivery rather than administrative tasks.
Soarian Scheduling helps coordinate activities across departments and facilities and synchronize resources, processes, and information so hospitals can optimize resource utilization, increase user productivity, and deliver a coordinated patient experience.
syngo Workflow – the RIS component of syngo Suite – drives the radiological workflow from order entry to image and report distribution. Moreover, it enables the use of workflow-improving solutions, such as the role-based syngo Portals, and the syngo speech recognition application. syngo Workflow manages processes for the exchange and distribution of patient data and images – supporting workflow efficiency.
syngo Suite offers comprehensive image and knowledge management solutions for radiology and cardiology needs, and can be individually combined as needed. It comprises of two or more solutions: syngo Workflow (RIS) connected with syngo Imaging or syngo Imaging XS (PACS), and/or syngo Dynamics (Cardiology PACS).
Providing the complete spectrum of care
Brand-new Hospital da Luz in Lisbon is among the most modern private hospitals not only in Portugal, but in the rest of Europe as well. With its 150 acute-care beds, it has all the clinical competences of a general hospital, including more than 40 clinical specialities. In addition, the hospital also comprises a nursing home unit with 130 beds and a residential home for seniors with 115 private apartments as part of an integrated healthcare complex, providing the complete spectrum of care in a single location. Some 400 physicians, 250 nurses, and 200 technicians work at Hospital da Luz. Almost the entire infrastructure of the 96,000-square-meter hospital was installed by Siemens.
Key Benefits
- End-to-end imaging workflow
- Increased efficiency
- Reduced patient waiting time
