CeBIT Health IT: Electronic Health Card already works (not only) in Hanover

At the CeBIT 2006, InterComponentWare (ICW) presents a functioning system for the electronic health card at its stand D 22 in hall 9. The special feature: the ICW system not only includes the mandatory applications of the electronic health card like ePrescription or contract data management, but also the integration of the personal health record LifeSensor, an important voluntary application of the new health card infrastructure.

With the electronic health card system, which is currently being tested in Walldorf, physicians can access medical information with the consent of their patient, which was recorded in the personal health record by other physicians. With the linkup of medical practice management systems like Qmed.Praxis, the physician views the desired information in his accustomed practice software and can copy this to his own patient's record. Physicians can also copy documents from their systems to the health record thus making it available to other physicians.

Pharmacists can view the drug history and information about previous illnesses in the record. On this information basis, they can perform an extensive drug interaction and contra-indication check for newly prescribed drugs in the connected ADG pharmacy information system.

What's especially interesting for statutory and private health insurance companies: with the partner company ActivIdentity, ICW has already implemented the complete life cycle management of the electronic health card. The integrated card management (CMS) and card application management system (CAMS) cover the entire life cycle of the card from initial personalization via changes to insurance data and the integration of new applications up to blocking the card.


For further information please contact:
InterComponentWare Inc
Nils Effertz
1840 Gateway Drive, Suite 228
San Mateo, CA 94404

Tel: +1 650 378 14 93
Fax: +1 650 378 14 90

E-mail: PR@icw-global.com

www.icw-global.com
www.LifeSensor.com



About InterComponentWare
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading international eHealth provider with locations in Germany, the USA, Austria, Switzerland, and Bulgaria. It develops and markets components for networking the different players in the health care industry, among them the hardware connector Medical NTBA and the patient-focused personal health record LifeSensor, the technology leader in this field. As part of the German government-consulting consortium bIT4health, ICW has rendered important consulting services for the introduction of the electronic health card in Germany and is additionally involved in the Austrian eCard project. With its cooperation in national and international steering and work groups for the establishment of an e-health infrastructure, ICW promotes the standardization aims in the health care industry.