Total view of health

Based on international standards and open technologies, LORENZO offers a wide range of solutions, which are assembled using a series of fundamental building blocks and tools. Consequently, information stored on standalone systems can be combined in meaningful ways and delivered immediately to the people who need it to support timely, accurate decision making and improved patient outcomes.

LORENZO also provides support for business process modelling so that organisational processes can be re-engineered enabling new models of healthcare delivery. Breaking down the walls that define traditional care setting boundaries, people, information and systems can collaborate to deliver or receive a seamless patient experience.

Highly intuitive and easy to use, LORENZO enables the delivery of information across a variety of devices including Tablet PCs, handheld computers, digital television and mobile phones. Using LORENZO, clinicians can consult electronic patient records during their ward rounds; family doctors have instant access to discharge summaries; and community care employees can update case notes during home visits.

LORENZO enjoys the support of some of the world’s largest systems integrators and healthcare providing organisations. LORENZO builds upon the cumulative wisdom and intellectual property amassed through the development and deployment of solutions to thousands of customers in 27 countries around the world. LORENZO was selected as one of the principal applications for deployment in the UK NHS National Programme for IT. This programme is the largest civilian IT project in the world and its procurement phase was the most rigorous evaluation ever undertaken of international healthcare IT products.

One journey, no walls
LORENZO transforms the traditional approach to care settings. LORENZO Solutions are designed to support healthcare processes that operate across organisational and care setting boundaries. Sharing a consistent platform and benefiting from LORENZO’s highly interoperable architecture, these solutions can be aligned with activities that link one or many settings.

LORENZO takes a revolutionary approach: it breaks down the barriers that impede the rapid and effective delivery of care and promotes more effective collaboration between healthcare professionals, departments and organisations. This also enables the aggregation of consistent data supporting clinical audit, facilitating performance management and furthering medical research.

	Care pathways Selina Jansari, aged 75, is admitted to Dr Nina Thompson’s team for her left hip to be replaced. She has come through Emergency with a fractured hip and after assessment and discussion with the patient it was decided to perform a hip replacement.

	Dr Thompson admits Selina and enters total hip replacement on the problem list in her patient record. Since there is no care pathway readily available, she visits the National Pathways Association (NPA) website and downloads two care pathways that have been in use at different organisations.

	Dr Thompson re-works the downloaded care pathways and creates a care pathway that applies to Selina. This pathway is later reviewed by Dr Thompson’s team and sent to other members of the care pathway committee. They review the new definition using collaborative online tools and publish it as a new definition of evidence-based best practice.