ITeG 2006: ICW Presents Interoperable Electronic Physician’s Letter

As a member of the VHitG Initiative Intersectoral Communication, the solutions of InterComponentWare AG (ICW) already implement the new interoperable electronic physician’s letter: At the ITeG trade fair the eHealth specialist shows how electronic physician’s letters can be reproduced and stored in the personal electronic health record LifeSensor and the virtual patient file of the hospital network solution ICW ProfessionalGate.

Until now physician’s letters have usually been sent by email as simple graphics or PDF documents. Under the VHitG specification, they are available as highly structured documents from which information can be transferred automatically to the treatment context of the recipient.

In the personal health record LifeSensor the physician’s letters created in information systems of doctor’s practices or hospitals can be displayed and stored in an organized manner. By this, ICW provides the basis for making the structured information contained in the physician’s letters available over the long term to physicians providing further care. For example, diagnoses or medication data from electronic physician’s letters can be transferred directly to the IT systems of clinics or General Practitioners who treat the patient at a later point in time.

The virtual patient file of the hospital network solution ICW ProfessionalGate now reproduces not only conventional forms of data such as DICOM or PDF but also electronic physician’s letters that have been created on the basis of HL7 V3 CDA R2 in accordance with the new VHitG specification.

For further information please contact:
InterComponentWare Inc.
Nils Effertz
1840 Gateway Drive, Suite 228
San Mateo, CA 94404

Tel: ++1 650 378 14 93
Fax: ++1 650 378 14 90

E-Mail: nils.effertz@icw-global.com

www.icw-global.com
www.LifeSensor.com


About InterComponentWare
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialist with locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA, and Bulgaria. Its solutions for networking the various participants in the health care system achieve a sustained improvement in process-oriented communication and data integrity – and thus the quality of medical care. Among other things, ICW develops and markets software and hardware components for the healthcare IT infrastructure for the electronic health card, the personal health record LifeSensor, and network solutions for clinics and physicians in private practice. As part of the bIT4health consortium, ICW has provided important consulting services for the deployment of the electronic health card in Germany and is also involved in the Austrian eCard project.