EANS-News: CompuGROUP Holding AG / A new court ruling regarding the free provision of prescription drug data bases threatens to be a future financial burden to physicians.

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Koblenz (euro adhoc) - Martinsried / München, April 16, 2009 - after
an oral hearing, the Landgericht München (Munich District Court)
today reported that it views the free provision of prescription drug
data bases that were financed by advertising to private practice
physicians as posing a risk of improper influence on the medical
profession. However, it is unclear if and when this ruling, which to
date has not yet been issued in writing, will be legally binding.
This unexpected ruling could lead to an increased financial burden on
physicians.

The underlying reason for the decision of the Munich District Court
was a complaint by the chairman of the ePrax AG, Wolfgang Scholz. In
this complaint, Mr. Scholz doubted the legality of the practice of
making a prescription drug data base that is financed with
advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, available free of charge
to private practice physicians. The ruling from Munich was a
surprise, since there is no dispute regarding the quality or type of
present advertising; the court solely takes issue with the fact that
physicians are able to receive the data free of charge.

"Ultimately, this can consequently affect other areas as well, such
as currently free continued education", comments Mr. Jochen
Brüggemann, ifap's managing director. Therefore, until the ruling is
legally or temporarily in effect, ifap will continue their tried and
true procedure of free distribution of their prescription drug data
base to private practice physicians.

With regard to potential consequences of the ruling, Mr. Brüggemann
stated: "At this time, we are unable to assess to what extent this
ruling may end up to be a financial burden to our users, but I see a
real risk that in the future the use of prescription drug data, which
the physicians must utilize every day, will become more expensive.
But even in the event of a potential new financing model for services
provided by ifap, we will always be a reliable, competent and fair
partner for the German Medical Profession with regard to prescription
drug data and the safety of prescription drug therapy. "

About ifap Service-Institut für Ärzte und Apotheker GmbH: ifap
Service-Institut für Ärzte und Apotheker GmbH is a fully owned
subsidiary of CompuGROUP Holding AG. ifap is one of the leading
providers of digital drug and therapy databases in Germany. Since
foundation in December 1990 ifap has specialized on the development
of digital media for prescription management, CPOE (computerized
physician order entry system), DSS (decision support system) and the
safety of medical therapy. Using its intelligent drug databases, ifap
provides complete, comprehensive and reliable up-to-date medical
information for every player in the health care system. More than
80,000 office physicians and more than 900 clinics in Germany rely on
ifap's drug and therapy databases.

About CompuGROUP Holding AG: CompuGROUP is one of the leading
e-health companies in the world. Its software products designed to
support medical and organizational activities in physicians'
surgeries and hospitals, its information services for all parties
involved in the health sector and its Web-based personal medical
files contribute to the development of a more reliable and efficient
health service system. The basis for the services offered by
CompuGROUP is an unparalleled customer base comprising some 326,000
physicians, dentists, hospitals and networks, as well as other
service providers. CompuGROUP is the e-health company with the widest
global reach among service providers. The firm operates in 14
European countries, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the U.S.
and currently employs roughly 2,700 people.

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Tel: 089 /89744-420

bruer@ifap.de

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