Hypercom’s medCompact for 10 Hospitals

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LVR InfoKom, the leading IT service provider for social organisations in Germany’s North Rhine region, has rolled out 230 medCompact e-Health terminals to support approximately 7,000 health care professionals at 10 hospitals which annually serve more than 50,000 patients.
 
The rollout is believed to be the largest of its type for Germany’s new e-Health card program. Germany’s e-Health card program is one of the largest IT projects worldwide with a planned deployment of more than 80 million electronic health insurance cards.
 
The introduction of the electronic health card (eGK) required that the LVR InfoKom-operated system for the 10 hospitals integrate decentralised points of transaction, such as admission and doctor’s offices, into a centrally driven KIS architecture using terminal servers. With leading hospital information systems provider NEXUS, LVR ensured the system would process both the new electronic health cards and current health insurance cards. Workstation-connected health data was then routed to the central primary system, while the health card data processing was done at the terminal server farm. LVR InfoKom’s IT infrastructure facilitated the rapid integration of the new terminals into the existing Citrix landscape.
 
"LVR’s rollout of Hypercom’s medCompact means that thousands of  health care professionals at ten major hospitals in the Rhineland region will be able to quickly and securely authenticate and process the new electronic health insurance cards,” said Ulf Hönick, Vice President Healthcare, Hypercom Corporation. “LVR’s decision to team with Hypercom is a win-win for hospitals, health care professionals and patients.”
 
"With medCompact, we have created a solution that guarantees our clients convenience and cost-benefits and one that can be transferred with little effort to other health care service providers," stated Oliver Hoffmann, CEO of LVR InfoKom. "Patients using medCompact during its pilot phase specifically appreciated the terminals’ easy use, simple and intuitive operation, large display and user-friendly PIN Pad.”