GE Healthcare links with ICW
GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company has signed a strategic agreement with German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW). GE Healthcare will use ICW’s integration technology to develop the connectivity and integration capabilities of its Centricity products. "Connectivity is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today and it directly impacts the quality and cost […]
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ICW works on New York e-prescriptions
German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US e-prescribing network. The partners will create an e-health prototype project to enable e-prescription transmission between different healthcare organisations across New York, through the Statewide Health information Network for New York (SHIN-NY). If patients provide their […]
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Bulgaria launches electronic records
Bulgaria has launched a national health portal as the entry point to its first electronic health records. The portal, developed by InterComponentWare (ICW), will give state administration employees access to a modern, electronic version of the paper-based Personal Ambulatory Book that is used to keep track of medical appointments. The Electronic Personal Ambulatory Book has been […]
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German diabetes risk management study begins
A new collaborative research project has been launched in Germany to examine how computer technology can be used to help predict risk factors associated with diabetes. Called ‘computer assisted diabetes risk management (CDRM)’ will examine how different e-health solutions can improve diabetes care. The study, which will be at medium scale, will focus on people […]
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ICW selected for US telehealth programme
German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for a home monitoring programme. ICW will provide the interoperability platform and infrastructure technology for Coventry Health’s telemonitoring pilot program. The German company is already involved in two large-scale European telehealth projects, including AOK Plus, a […]
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Open eHealth Foundation sets out priorities
The Open eHealth Foundation (OeHF), an open source initiative for improving the exchange of medical information using existing standards, has been incorporated as a non-profit organisation in Delaware enabling it to begin operations. The OeHF is intended to provide software components under an Open Source license that will boost the open standards-based exchange of medical […]
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AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic heart failure. The service will be offered to patients living in the German state of Saxony. The ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of the system. The system has already […]
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ICW establishes Silicon Valley eHealth Lab
German e-health firm InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced the formation of ICW Labs, a Silicon Valley based R&D organisation focused on the development and use of ICW’s eHealth technology. Called ICW Labs the new organisation will be headed by Thomas Odenwald, described by ICW as a “veteran SAP technology leader and visionary”. Odenwald brings extensive experience […]
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Swiss clinic group implements MPI from ICW
Swiss private clinic group, Hirsladen, has installed a master patient index system supplied by German e-health specialist InterComponentWare. The master patient index (MPI) system will support the integration of heterogeneous hospital systems used in the 13 private clinics and 100 centres of excellence and specialised institutes of the Hirslanden group. The Hirslanden clinics already use […]
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ICW to use Cisco for Healthcare Connector
Germany’s InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced it will be using the Cisco Application eXtension Platform as part of its Healthcare Connector product. ICW describes Health Connector as the critical technological component for the high security communication of health data. Using Cisco’s Application eXtension Platform, applications can be installed directly on a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR), […]
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