EANS-News: CompuGROUP Holding AG / i:fox® - Safe medication therapy now also available for clinics in Germany

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Koblenz (euro adhoc) - Effective immediately, ifap Service-Institut
für Ärzte und Apotheker GmbH, a subsidiary of CompuGROUP Holding AG,
will be supporting clinics in their efforts to prevent undesirable
medication incidents (UMI). The i:fox® digital therapy assistant
calls attention to potential risks associated with drug prescriptions
and helps reduce both costs and complications.

Medication therapy is always a high-risk process. Between 5 and 10
percent of all hospital admissions are attributable to UMI. And
clinics are no exception. Effective immediately, the i:fox® therapy
assistant developed by ifap, which is already firmly established in
the primary care sector, will be available to clinics as well. i:fox®
has already been integrated into the ifap index® KLINIK drug database
currently in use at numerous clinics.

All patient data of relevance to safety are collected in the patient
files comprised within the i:fox® system, to include acute and
long-term diagnoses, allergies and medications administered at
admission. Prescriptions and medication regimes are then checked
against all available data. i:fox® reviews prescriptions for the
purpose of identifying interactions, counter indications, duplicate
prescriptions, allergy risks, nutritional influences and risks for
pregnant patients. The computed risk factor is then displayed via the
i:fox® safety icon quickly in an easily interpretable colour-coded
form. The i:fox® library also provides physicians and hospital
pharmacists with valuable additional information, such as suggestions
for less risky alternative therapies and indicators of typical
symptoms of reciprocal effects.

In this way, i:fox® provides clinic physicians to receive the
information they need to prescribe the right medications for their
patients at the right time. The results of the risk assessment can be
printed out for purposes of documentation or transmission to other
healthcare providers. i:fox® is kept current through quarterly
updates and online releases as needed.

"According to experts, inpatient treatment in response to UMI in
Germany generates costs in the six-digit range. With i:fox®, we now
also offer clinics a decision-support system that provides
safety-relevant information based on patient health files. In this
way, we provide active support for clinic physicians in their efforts
to ensure patient safety and reduce costs", explains Dr. Christian
Bruer, Director of Marketing and Sales at ifap. "As a CompuGROUP
subsidiary, we are also committed to the corporate goal of increasing
the efficiency of the healthcare system by 15% with the aid of
intelligent software. With i:fox®, we have made significant progress
toward achieving that objective."

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 its
foundation in December 1990 ifap has specialized in the development
of digital media for prescription management, CPOE (computerized
physician order entry system), DSS (decision support systems) 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 healthcare 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 2,800 people.

Point of contact for editorial offices:
Dr. Christian Bruer
Director of Marketing & Sales

Telephone: +49 89 897 44 - 420
Telefax: +49 89 897 44 - 300
E-Mail: bruer@ifap.de

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Further inquiry note:

Barbara Zörner

Tel.: 0261-8000 1293

E-Mail: bzo@compugroup.com

Branche: Software
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WKN: 543730
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