Hypercom Corporation announced that LVR InfoKom, the leading IT service provider for social organizations in Germany's North Rhine region, has rolled out up to 230 medCompact e-Health terminals to support approximately 7,000 health care professionals at 10 hospitals serving annually more than 50,000 patients. The rollout is believed to be the largest of its type for Germany 's new e-Health card program.
"LVR's rollout of Hypercom's medCompact means that thousands of health care professionals at ten major hospitals in the Rhineland region will be able to quickly and securely authenticate and process the new electronic health insurance cards," said Ulf H?nick, Vice President Healthcare, Hypercom Corporation. "LVR's decision to team with Hypercom is a win-win for hospitals, health care professionals and patients."
"With medCompact, we have created a solution that guarantees our clients convenience and cost-benefits and one that can be transferred with little effort to other health care service providers," stated Oliver Hoffmann, CEO of LVR InfoKom. "Patients using medCompact during its pilot phase specifically appreciated the terminals' easy use, simple and intuitive operation, large display and user-friendly PIN Pad."
The introduction of the electronic health card (eGK?) required that the LVR InfoKom-operated system for the 10 hospitals integrate decentralized points of transaction, such as admission and doctor's offices, into a centrally driven KIS architecture using terminal servers. With leading hospital information systems provider NEXUS, LVR ensured the system would process both the new electronic health cards and current health insurance cards. Workstation-connected health data was then routed to the central primary system, while the health card data processing was done at the terminal server farm. LVR InfoKom's IT infrastructure facilitated the rapid integration of the new terminals into the existing Citrix landscape.
Germany's e-Health card program is one of the largest IT projects worldwide with a planned deployment of more than 80 million electronic health insurance cards.
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