EANS-News: World Health Summit in Berlin: CompuGROUP calls for greater efficiency and security in the health system.

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Company Information/World Health Summit

Koblenz (euro adhoc) - As one of the world's leading e-health
providers CompuGROUP Holding AG is very much committed to achieving
innovation within the health system. The company's Decision Support
Systems and electronic health records enhance diagnostics and patient
treatment whilst also bringing about an increase in efficiency. This
topic also formed the subject for today's address given to the World
Health Summit in Berlin by CompuGROUP's Chief Medical Officer Prof.
Dr. Stefan F. Winter.

The overarching objective of CompuGROUP is to increase efficiency in
the health system without needing to resort to cost-cutting measures.
In order to achieve this aim, CompuGROUP is pursuing the idea of
cross-sectoral networking of all health system stakeholders and
seeking to introduce an effective telematics infrastructure extending
across the whole of the country. The company believes that this
should be realised via a consortium under the lead management of the
partner companies of service providers acting in conjunction with
Gematik (electronic health card company for the application of
telematics mbH).

CompuGROUP also takes the view that equal importance needs to be
attached to making greater use of intelligent medical software in the
form of so-called Medical Decision Support Systems (MDSS). Decision
Support Systems provide doctors with relevant medical information on
the basis of a patient's existing medical data. This information is
made available electronically at the precise time and place required.
Decision Support Systems deliver targeted and efficient assistance to
those involved in patient treatment and support the highly
responsible enhanced diagnostics and therapy work carried out every
day by health professionals.

The main focus is on greater security of diagnosis and treatment.
This acts as a vehicle for increasing the quality of care and has
established itself the third main pillar of the healthcare system
alongside medicines and medical products. Broader deployment of MDSS
could drastically reduce the number of wrongly issued prescriptions.
These amount to almost three million in Germany alone and cause in
excess of one million unnecessary days spent in hospital as well as
resulting in over 15,000 deaths due to - avoidable - side effects
triggered by medication.

In addressing this topic at the World Health Summit on 15 October,
CompuGROUP Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Prof. Dr. Stefan F. Winter
formulated the company's demands in the following manner. "We are in
favour of an effective incentive system in the form of the nationwide
introduction of totally confidential health records to be
administered by doctors. This should be an optional benefit for the
purpose of delivering higher quality of care rather than a compulsory
scheme". The aim should be for statutory and private health insurance
companies to be able to engage in fair competition and to cooperate
with one another on the deployment of new technologies for the
purpose of achieving greater efficiency in the health system. The
German Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians should be
freed from unnecessarily bureaucratic regulations and left to devote
their full attention to their duty to provide safety and quality
assurance. "Intelligent IT solutions in the care sector will have a
crucial impact on the individual medicine practised in the 21st
century and will also represent a completely new form of health
policy: public health strategies on the basis of evidence", Winter
continued.

The World Health Summit is the leading event of its kind for
researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers and stakeholders
in the health system. It takes place annually and this year will be
held in Berlin for the first time from 14 to 18 October 2009.

About CompuGROUP Holding AG CompuGROUP is one of the leading e-health
companies worldwide. Its software products, designed to support all
medical and organisational activities in doctors' offices and
hospitals, its information services for all parties involved in the
healthcare system and its web-based personal health records
contribute towards safer and more efficient healthcare. The services
of CompuGROUP are based on its unique customer base of around 326,000
doctors, dentists, hospitals and networks as well as other service
providers. CompuGROUP is the e-Health company with the biggest
coverage among e-health service providers worldwide. The company
operates in 14 European countries, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa and in the USA and currently employs around 2,800 people.

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Further inquiry note:

Barbara Zörner

Tel.: 0261-8000 1293

E-Mail: bzo@compugroup.com

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