iSOFT Group Limited announced key Lorenzo developments, including the release of Lorenzo 3.6 and a drive to make Lorenzo components available to meet specific market needs, under its new Smart Solutions strategy.

The latest release of Lorenzo Enterprise features a host of new and improved functions, including nurse process management. Under a policy of delivering quarterly updates of new features and improvements, the new nursing functions are for managing day-to-day tasks, clinical forms and correspondence and clinical noting. Lorenzo 3.7, due next year, will include additional nursing functions such as shift handover support and patient cockpit.

The nursing component is just one key element of iSOFT’s Lorenzo Smart Solution strategy to provide vital new applications to the market at lower costs, in a faster go-to-market fashion, and allowing its customers to benefit from new functionalities. Based on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, these are infrastructure-light solutions that can be installed without the need for new hardware, additional database licenses, or the upheaval of replacing existing systems.

The need for nurse process management applications is particularly apparent in Germany with several iSOFT customers ready to take the new application.

The new components are designed to sit alongside existing iSOFT solutions, but also give iSOFT the opportunity to gain a foothold at other hospitals.

Andrea Fiumicelli, iSOFT’s acting Chief Executive Officer, says the Smart Solutions concept is an important development as it gives customers the opportunity to begin their Lorenzo journey. “The initiative gives customers crucial functionality and the opportunity to introduce future-proof technologies, but also to begin an incremental path to the full Lorenzo suite of patient and clinical applications.”

The Lorenzo Smart Solution strategy will focus on elements such as nursing, complex enterprise scheduling, interoperability, portals, medication management, and others.