Capgemini and dbMotion Enter into Swedish Partnership Agreement
14 November 2006
Stockholm, Sweden and Raanana, Israel, October 6, 2006 - Capgemini Sverige AB and dbMotion Ltd, one of the world's leading software suppliers of integrated solutions for Health information Exchange (HIE), have entered into a partnership agreement. This means that Capgemini will become a prime dbMotion partner in Sweden, providing a comprehensive solution for a National Integrated Patient Summary and local/regional medical information consolidation.
The Swedish national IT strategy for the health care sector, drawn up by the working group that was set up by Sweden's Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, singles out the National Integrated Patient Summary as one of its highest priorities. dbMotion's solution enables each of the parties within the health care sector to retain the existing information within its original location and format, while at the same time the patient information will be connected up to a national system so that the patient's overall medical information can be viewed in one integrated interface.
Different clinics have a need for different medical information solutions. The problem today is that it is not possible to view lab results, a patient's case notes, or procedures and tests performed at other locations. The result is a threat to patient safety and quality care due to decisions being made based on partial medical
information, and the resulting repetition of tests and unnecessary examinations. These consequences place an additional burden not only on the patient's time and safety but also incur a major expense for society.
"No technical solution has previously existed for attaining the national vision of 'one patient - one record'. The county councils that have wanted to create a patient overview system have been forced to build it themselves, which has been very expensive in terms of both development and management. dbMotion has a standardised and packaged product which is relatively easy to integrate into the existing system", says Håkan Petersson, head of Capgemini's public sector in Sweden.
dbMotion and the Capgemini group's intention is to build cooperation throughout Europe. As a consequence, Capgemini is now launching its collaboration with dbMotion with Sweden as an introductory market in order to subsequently expand the cooperation to the rest of Europe. "Capgemini has the resources and competence to be a very important partner in establishing ourselves in Sweden and in other European markets. Capgemini's strength is that it can act as the facilitator in relation to the healthcare sector and assume responsibility for implementation of the dbMotion solution", states Ronen Avron, dbMotion's vice-president of international sales.
