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First Health Card Connector: ICW and Cisco Submit Healthcare Router for Licensing
Walldorf/Berlin, April 30, 2007 – The operation company for the introduction of the electronic health card in Germany received the first connector for licensing pursuant to the current specification 1.0 today: eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and network equipper Cisco submitted their jointly developed health card connector "Cisco Healthcare Router" to gematik for provisional licensing.With grant of the provisional license by gematik, the Cisco Healthcare Router can now be applied in all German electronic health card test regions. The rollout for connectors with the current 1.0 specification in offline mode is planned for June. This connector version now allows the use of modern Secure Interoperable Chipcard Terminals (SICCT) for the first time. These terminals are also provided for application with the final version of the health card. Presently, the test regions Saxony and Schleswig Holstein still use MKT+ card readers, which are directly connected to the physicians' PCs without a connector. Together with this connector, the new terminals provide a clearly higher degree of data integrity.
The Cisco Healthcare Router with the ICW Healthcare Connector Application now submitted for preliminary licensing unites a network connector and a so-called application connector in one box. The Healthcare Router establishes a safe connection between the local physician’s office or pharmacy network and the healthcare network of the electronic health card. In the physicians' or pharmacy network, the application connector controls the flow of information between the connected card readers, the available physician practice or pharmacy software and the healthcare network. This allows the safe and comfortable use of the electronic health card applications, e.g. electronic prescriptions or personal health records using the already existing physician practice or pharmacy software.
Due to the fact that the Healthcare Router is based on a proven Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR), it can be managed more efficiently than proprietary developments. Network operators are familiar with the underlying network technology, which substantially reduces training measures required for its application.
ICW provides a software development kit for the Healthcare Router developed in cooperation with Cisco in the ICW Developer Network at http://idn.icw-global.com, which allows the fast and easy preparation of the present practice management and pharmacy information systems for the electronic health card. Physicians and pharmacists can still work in their accustomed software environment after the introduction of the new health card.
About InterComponentWare
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialist with locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Bulgaria. Its solutions for networking the various players in the healthcare system lastingly improve process-oriented communication and data integrity, and therefore also the quality of healthcare. Among other things, ICW develops and distributes software and hardware components for the healthcare IT infrastructure for electronic health cards, the LifeSensor personal health record as well as networking solutions for hospitals and physician offices. As part of the bIT4health consortium, ICW provided important consulting services for the implementation of the electronic health card in Germany, is involved in the Austrian eCard project and has recently won the pilot project for the national health card in Bulgaria.
For additional information, please contact:
InterComponentWare Inc.
Nils Effertz
One Waters Park Drive – Suite 280
San Mateo, CA 94403
Tel: 1 650 295 2124
Fax: 1 650 212 2890
E-Mail: Nils.Effertz@icw-global.com
www.icw-global.com
www.LifeSensor.com
InterComponentWare AG
Dirk Schuhmann
Otto-Hahn-Straße 3
69190 Walldorf, Germany
Tel: 49 (0) 6227-385-133
Fax: 49 (0) 6227-385-199
E-Mail: Dirk.Schuhmann@icw.de
www.icw.de
www.LifeSensor.de
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