iSoft to offer Lorenzo as an integrated product

UK-based iSoft Plc is planning to integrate functionalities of all its existing healthcare products with its flagship product Lorenzo to offer it as an integrated suite for the comprehensive requirements of healthcare organisations across the globe. Lorenzo was conceived and developed by the company's product group in India.

On the sidelines of a press conference here, Satya Kaliki, head - global product management, iSoft India, said Lorenzo would become a single core product by integrating all functionalities of existing products over the next few years. "This will be an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution for all healthcare organisations," he added.

Lorenzo and the company's other 35 products are used in about 27 countries across the globe. The company is planning to release the next version of Lorenzo with the new features by the end of this year.

The press conference was organised to share company's development experience regarding its flagship product Lorenzo and the role of Chennai development centre. Ravan Boddu, chief executive officer, iSoft India, said that though the product was currently used in other parts of globe, the company would also explore the options of marketing it in India as soon as the product could be configured to any language and any market requirements.

"It is a highly scalable solution and could be used in India as well," he added.

Development of Lorenzo by iSoft India was an example of a software company based out of India creating a large scale enterprise solution for global requirements, he said. The company's Indian arm has also developed its other products.

About 50 per cent of the Indian workforce is focusing on Lorenzo engineering. At present, iSoft India employs about 1,600 people in its development centres in Chennai and Hyderabad.

Lorenzo is a web-based application that stores information on patients' ailments and the implications of the drugs that they had been prescribed. Its other service offerings include diagnostics, requesting, management, clinical narrative and billing. "Every kind of user through different devices can access the application," added Kaliki.

He also said that the application was capable of scaling from the largest to smallest healthcare organisation. The company also claimed to have performed benchmark tests to prove its scalability features within healthcare application delivery and the results were validated by analysts from International Data Corporation and its Health Insights subsidiary.