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cal Care and Cure concern, which
When opened in 2009, Orbis Medical Center standardized all also includes Orbis Daniken Hos‐
workplaces to ensure a flexible and highly dynamic environment. pice, Orbis Home‐care, Orbis
Combined technology from Dell, Siemens, HP, Citrix, RES Software Domestic Help, Orbis Mental
and VMware ensures that Orbis Virtual WorkPlace has become Health, Rehabilitation and nine
reality. NetOpus went on to study this innovative concept in the satellite care centers. With activi‐
ties in the areas of care, services,
new modern hospital .
Marcel Beelen
housing and welfare Orbis has 12
locations in the south of the
Netherlands.
A new hospital is not build from This means giving birth to new
one day to another. Back in 1995 processes, technology, organiza‐
Orbis started investigating the tion en logistics. Healthcare boulevard
need for provisioning a dynamic A patient‐oriented, chain organi‐ The results are impressive. After
care environment to remain zation needs a suitable working parking your car, you walk, while
competitive and to give content environment, where both the enjoying some music, in the di‐
to the mission of Orbis "ensure building and the automated rection of the hospital. At the
continuity for healthcare workplace is part of it. The con‐ entrance to the right and left
processes" It soon became clear struction started in 2006 and situated is the baker and the first
that this goal required a new after three years, in January thing you smell is fresh bread.
hospital building. Once approved 2009, “Orbis Medical Centre” Next you enter the big impressive
for construction by the Ministry opened doors , and closed the hall where you get a good im‐
of Health in 1999, they started old “Maasland Hospital” site. The pression of the building. It feels
developing their new included new hospital has 450 beds and like a luxury shopping mall, only
assignment ; the design of the 2,000 employees. Orbis Medical there are no shops and escalators
“hospital for the 21st century” Center is part of the Orbis Medi‐ but nursery‐, speaking‐ and study
increased. This where free seating, smooth
means the roaming, a quick login process
processes are and single sign‐on. "
running effi‐
ciently. Free seating
In Orbis Medi‐ The most notable effort is the
cal Center, high concept ‘free workplaces’ (free
tech health‐ seating). Doctors and other staff
care combined members have no private offices
with innovative and computers, but can use one
ICT technology, of the total 2000 compact iden‐
logistics and tical Dell desktops in the building.
hospitality pro‐ The PCs are equipped with large
vide a total 22” wide screens and special
different expe‐ software to split the physical
rooms. The great hall is called the rience for patients and staff. display into two separate logical
“healthcare boulevard” where "We wanted to create a identical screens, as they can read the
you can buy care‐related prod‐ and quick access environment EPD files and see images simulta‐
ucts and medical devices. This everywhere, to provide transpa‐ neously. Previously this would
appearance is an important part rent information anytime, any‐ require two physical monitors.
of the concept of the hospital of where” says Jos Demandt, Head These workstations are available
the future. “The customer comes of ICT in many appearances , including
first”. Being ill and undergoing “The new workplace was bap‐ lounge seats, lockable cockpits,
tests or treatment is bad enough, tized: "Orbis Virtual Work‐place,"
so if you can make things more
comfortable, this is a positive
contribution for the healing
process.
The hospital has a very spacious
design , but because the areas Jos explains. “It’s a modular and kiosk‐like desktops and open
are efficiently situated and classi‐ easy to customize concept office spaces separated by light
fied to operate for very well We combined Citrix XenApp vir‐ shielding. Different types of
streamlined care processes, the tual desktop technology with chairs and benches, desks and
surface area of the new hospital VMware Thin‐App application tables, some electronic height‐
is less than the old hospital. virtualization. Combined with adjustable, ensuring an ergonom‐
The design of the building also management software from RES ic workspace.
ensures that visitors feel com‐ this supplies a very dynamic and Each employee has a locker (of‐
fortable and relaxed, while the manageable environment. Key ten with a mailbox) to store stuff.
figures show that production has elements of the initial concept Because the entire hospital gen‐
erally makes use of free seating, and a single card tray are also employee can change his
no doctor has an office of his common in Orbis medical center" workplace within 10 seconds.
own where he can receive pa‐ This is because the session on the
tients. The patient is king and Free seating farm just keeps running in dis‐
gets a visit during his own con‐ In the hospital you will also find connected status when the card
sulting room assigned, and the "knowledge and expertise cen‐ is removed and when the card is
doctors are "visiting" the patient. ters”, where medical staff can placed in another reader this
Each consultation room is meet en exchange information. session is picked up again. A phy‐
equipped with a standard PC They are open spaces including sician can thus speak with a pa‐
where the doctors login with lounge areas for physicians and tient in a consultation room, dis‐
their smartcard as the patient support staff for administrative cuss the patients EPF and later
file opened almost directly on the work to do, consult each other study the data in a lounge seat
screen and the patient can watch and to promote knowledge. Or‐ Every employee gets his own
his records. The interview rooms thopedics and surgery have a lot personalized RES PowerFuse
have two entrances. Through a of interfaces which they can environment with the applica‐
separate entrance on the side of share in this kind of offices. tions required for its function.
healthcare‐boulevard where pa‐ A physicians working day could
tients can enter the consultation include consultation, followed by
rooms. The entrance for the an hour without patients which Smooth roaming
doctors is on the other side. Both he spends in the expertise centre Jos Demandt : "A requirement in
people meet in het room itself. , followed by surgery activities the design was that logging on
"After a while flexible working, in in the afternoon at the OR should not take more than 10
practice, we see that about 40 To give substance to free seating seconds. This is not quite
percent of the doctors has been the ability to roam between PCs achieved. The connection time
nevertheless a solid room. In the is required. for a practice session normally
final , free seating has to fit the Each employee has a smartcard lasts about 15 seconds.
care process. with private key code. The em‐ This is because of the request for
As for a specific function its ployee puts the smart card into a additional functionality to the
‘more useful and effective to slot on the keyboard from any PC connection process, which is
have an office privately, we cer‐ in the hospital and is thus au‐ more complicated and thus slows
tainly support. This has no nega‐ thenticated, after which a session down slightly, " Jos adds to.
tive effect in the management is opened on the Citrix XenApp "for example, there was need for
field "Jos continued. “ server farm. The PCs are used as a recipe printer in the consulting
"Also nursing departments are thin clients. rooms, who should automatical‐
automatically wards often a more The first login process on Mon‐ ly connect to the workstation
personal touch. A completely day morning, takes al little bit used in this room specific room.
paperless office is an illusion, you more time than the next logins , The system, simply needs time to
also have to take the past with because a new session should be search for printers. With RES
you, so cabinets, hanging folders built but From that moment an PowerFuse, this feature is easy to
implement and the extra delay is servers because the software
minimized . This smooth roam‐ does not need to be installed.
ing, using a smart card, is rated as During the week, around 1900
very positive by the staff and the simultaneous sessions on the
performance of connecting and Citrix XenApp servers remain
disconnecting the sessions and active, because the employees do
the applications themselves are not logout. During the weekend
excellent. Because the smart card the servers in case are cleaned up
is also equipped with RFID it’s by a maintenance process. The
also used to gain access to spe‐ 80 HP blade servers are, in and
cific rooms or non public area’s automated process, removed
so everyone has to take it always from the citrix farm on Friday
with him. " night while during the weekends
The requirement for a single sign‐ four separate XenApp servers
on solution has been withdrawn. take over the service. The serv‐
Because almost all data ers are maintained (defrag‐
processing takes place in SAP, the mented, etc.) and rebooted, and
SAP logon is ‐ next to the log in on Monday at dawn again added
the domain with the smart card ‐ to the farm.
the most common login re‐
quired. account on all workstations is
Because users login actually only changed with RES Wisdom.
once a week (on Monday) ses‐ Emergency procedure Running local applications is also
sions keep running throughout Although the potential for severe useful for specific applications.
the whole week, single sign‐on disturbances is very small Orbis For example Windows Media
would be overkill and rather a decided to implement an emer‐ Player is localy run in the
disadvantage from management gency procedure for the 2000 to workstation to play video from a
perspective. workstations. DVD. This reduces the need for
Instead of true thin clients, there‐ specific multimedia components
fore is chosen for PCs, primarly on the citrix environmentRES
Critical applications configured as thin client device. PowerFuse Workspace Extender
On the Citrix farm are running But the are also capable of run‐ makes it possible to display
around 150 applications, includ‐ ning local applications transparent local applications
ing some very critical applica‐ The six most critical applications ‐ within the centralized XenApp
tions. The main application is including SAP gui ‐ is as a ThinApp session.
SAP. package ‐ on all local PCs availa‐
All subsystems of the Hospital ble by RES Wisdom. Specials
Information System and all care If the Citrix farm or the Active Besides the Dell 2000 worksta‐
processes are interfacing or Directory domain experience tions, there are specialized com‐
communicating with it, from the problems, then enter into the puters for example in Ophthal‐
Electronic Patient Record to the emergency scenario. mology. These workstations are
control of Auto Guided Vehicles, Employees can hear via the provided with hospital equip‐
which handle the logistics of food phone's the local password for a ment and using software linked
transport, medical and solid ma‐ generic local account on all com‐ specifically to this equipment.
terials. Orbis has done every ef‐ puters are created. Then they These PC's are indeed included in
fort to implement a duplicated can logon on the PC itself (with‐ the care process but the IT de‐
and redundant infrastructure. out smartcard) and start the six partment is not able to manage
But there are other measures local applications. all these separate endpoints.
taken to give the environment The only prerequisite is that the The supplier is responsible for
extra stability. All 150 applica‐ network and the central databas‐ supporting these medical sys‐
tions are isolated from the oper‐ es such as SAP, is operational. tems.. The PCs are equipped with
ating system with VMware Thi‐ If the problem is solved, the an virtualized ICA / XenApp
nApp and ensure stable Xenapp password of the generic local Client. In this way, even highly
divergent systems can be con‐ of the bedside
nected to Orbis Virtual terminal, his
WorkPlace. Orbis calls this "in‐ XenApp ses‐
ternal teleworking" similar to the sion is opened
teleworking functionality which and the ter‐
in exactly the same manner pro‐ minal acts as a
vides doctors to work at home. standard
There are also medical devices workstation.
connected remotely. On any The physician
standard workstation, a specialist can then dis‐
can, from the Citrix session, open cuss the elec‐
a session on a ECG workstation tronic patient
with the Microsoft Remote Desk‐ record togeth‐
top Client for example to look at er with the
ECG recordings. This is persona‐ patient.
lized by RES PowerFuse so that From the nurs‐ and provide staff time and place‐
only the person who is autho‐ ing department was the demand independent access to all neces‐
rized can operate. for an additional display. This is sary information.
realized with a special, Windows “We virtualised IT as much as
XP embedded, wireless con‐ possible and set up modular sys‐
Bedside terminal nected notebook so the medica‐ tem. This creates the opportunity
At Orbis Medical Center a patient tion can be entered simulta‐ for dynamic en efficient man‐
receives a private room with neously when the physician up‐ agement without risks”, Jos con‐
private bathroom and a sofa on dates the treatment data.These cludes. "The Citrix environment is
which any partner or parent can devices also proved suitable for inherently modular and servers
stay overnight. Each room is use in the rest of the building. can be easily added or main‐
tained.
Because all applications are iso‐
lated with VMware ThinApp they
can be added or removed as
modules on Citrix XenApp servers
equipped with a bedside termin‐ This resulted in another 200 of
and workstations. RES PowerFuse
al. This is a Linux‐based medical this special device used as mobile
is actually a module of the work‐
(industrial) PC from Siemens, workstations These also use the
space, so that the institutions
consisting of a touch screen, key‐ standard Citrix XenApp environ‐
and rights to applications are
board and phone, with a large ment and can log in immediately
treated as separate entity. The
swivel‐arm mounted to the bed. after power‐on with a generic
glue between all modules is RES
De patiënt heeft een pasje account, in a limited environ‐
Wisdom, which eliminates the
waarmee hij inlogt op de termi‐ ment. Its also possible to login
need for scripts and for both
nal. The patient has a smart card with a users private account
server, deployment of ThinApp
to logon on the terminal. He then without using a smart card
packages and care settings. “
sees a central control panel to Because the thin clients run in
Within the hospital of the 21st
adjust environment comfort read‐only mode, they are not
century ,ICT developments never
(light, curtains, temperature), sensitive to disturbances. Just a
stand still and currently benefits
manage food ordering, use the reboot will return them in their
of cloud‐computing concepts
internet or watch TV. At the original state. The WiFi network
from Citrix, Google or other pro‐
nurse‐desk, nurses can monitor is also used for telephony. Orbis
viders are being investigated.
the services of the domotica sys‐ uses IP phones and VoIP for in‐
Possible Orbis Virtual Workplace
tem and if necessary remote ternal calls to reachable any‐
is going to migrate into Orbis
control the several items, for where. "In healthcare everything
virtual Workspace
example, shut off the light if the must be carry out under well
patient has fallen asleep. defined protocols. ICT technology
When a doctor puts his smart in Orbis Medical Center becomes
j.demandt@gmail.com
card into a separate card reader the engine for the care processes