UZ Leuven also offers medical software to other hospitals – The Standard

             As a computer you usually have the choice between two types of employers: an IT company working for clients or internal IT department of a company or government. UZ Leuven combines the two. It develops software for internal and external use. “For us it is difficult to find good technical sections, than to keep them.”
         

Nearly 160 people work in the IT department of UZ Leuven, with 2,000 beds a very large hospital in our country. It is striking that more than half of their IT staff is enabled for the (further) development of proprietary software for medical records. “This application we internally but we provide them now also use some twenty other hospitals,” says Bart Van den Bosch, who is responsible as Chief Information Officer or CIO for the entire IT happen at UZ Leuven.

that application, clinical workstation (KWS) is called, is one of the key software using a hospital. “The application consists of several modules, which are activated according to the person or department that works with it, from operating theater to gastroscopy or prescription medications,” says Van den Bosch. “We use within our hospital group also purchased software such as medical imaging or for accounting. We develop certainly not everything yourself. Though there’s even some work on purchased software to make it ready for use. “

Each device generates data

Even though UZ Leuven seems quite specific area, the group has certainly to do with the big trends that make today in the world of IT round. More and more applications are accessible via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. “We provide a mobile version of our clinical workstation, as well as an app for patients to consult their data in a secure environment that way,” Van den Bosch illustrates.

Another important trend in the iT world is generating so-called ‘internet of things’ where various devices or sensors data. “More and more devices are also increasingly linked to our clinical workstation. I estimate that today we have approximately 14,000 network connections. These are devices, PCs, phones, devices, or machines connected to our system. In many cases there is thus provided a constant monitoring and analysis. Think of the newborn babies in neonatology, which very much vital parameters are monitored constantly “

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