DN Group Secures Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Information Technology of the Year Award.LONDON -- Italy & Germany-based DN Group has been conferred the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Information Technology of the Year Award for its successful introduction of cutting-edge technology in clinical data management. The award recognizes the "innovative capabilities, influence and impact" of the technology in the healthcare provider market. Dianoema, the group head, has long been a leader in Web applications for the healthcare market. With its acquisition of the Berlin-based company GMD (company) GMD - Full name: "GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH" (German National Research Center for Information Technology). Before April 1995, GMD stood for "Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung" - National Research Center for Computer Science, , which develops and markets e-health solutions, DN Group has reinforced its commitment to developing a comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR EPR Electron Paramagnetic Resonance EPR Extended Producer Responsibility EPR Electronic Patient Record(s) EPR Emergency Preparedness and Response (US DHS) EPR Endpoint Reference EPR Ethylene-Propylene Rubber ) systems portfolio. ITACA ITACA Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologias de la Informacion y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (Institute for the Applications of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies; Valencia, Spain) the EPR system for the Italian market and e-health(R).solutions (clinical data management platform) use components that allow the integration of medical and administrative IT systems in the hospital, and workflow-oriented support for the clinical workspace. "The company's EPR solution adopts a patient-centric view and it integrates, organizes and distributes crucial clinical information used within healthcare organizations," says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Siddharth Saha. The technology uses a Web-based platform that allows universal data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , ensuring ready accessibility to a particular patient's clinical data. DN Group's EPR solutions also provide high quality, cost-effective healthcare by enabling connectivity between all clinical data generation points including radiology, laboratory, wards, suppliers, pharmacies and data viewing points such as wards, physician offices, and primary care units. In spite of the resistance encountered in the market during the initial stages, the technology is today becoming an industry standard, and the installations are growing by numbers. Current trends in EPR functionality have resulted in the development of solutions for both hospital level systems with a common master patient index In medical systems the Master Patient Index (MPI) is an index referencing all patients known to an area, enterprise or organization. The terms Patient Master Index (PMI) and Master Person Index are used interchangeably. and a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. record with hospital access through the Web. e-health(R).solutions capabilities are derived from four design fundamentals that allow for unique features such as integration capabilities, ease of access, flexibility and security, all of which are crucial in the current stage of the product's life cycle," observes Mr. Saha. Integrability with the use of data structures and communication interfaces based on standards such as HL7, DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , and the use of native Web architecture enable the system to be accessed from distributed stations with no need of peripheral software distribution and maintenance. A highly customizable application layer and generator ensures that the system can be adapted to each institution's individual processes and needs. Adherence to privacy, data security and data traceability using data encryption data encryption, the process of scrambling stored or transmitted information so that it is unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient. Historically, data encryption has been used primarily to protect diplomatic and military secrets from foreign , audit trails and access right management are other factors that contribute to its superior performance. In presenting DN Group with the Technology of the Year Award, Frost & Sullivan recognizes it as a company that has "set an important milestone to the developmental cycle of the integrated and comprehensive electronic medical record system in Europe." About Frost & Sullivan Founded in 1961, Frost & Sullivan is recognized as a global leader in growth consulting. Frost & Sullivan Awards A Sullivan Award may refer to:
About DN Group DN Group is an Italian-German group active in the health IT sector since 1996. With a customer base of more than 150 healthcare institutions, most of which large hospitals, DN Group is one of the top European players in the Diagnostic Information Systems market. The group includes 5 companies: Dianoema, Noematica, Italnoema, Noema Consulting and GMD. GMD is the German company of the Group. Initially funded by a group of Venture Capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , it was focused from its very foundation on Clinical Data Management systems. |
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