EnBW acquires interest in ehealth specialist ICW
12 October 2006 Walldorf & Karlsruhe, Germany. Energie
Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) has acquired a minority interest in ehealth
specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW). The additional capital is intended
to accelerate the further development of the innovative ICW networking
solutions, and to reinforce the international market presence of the
company. With its interest in ICW, EnBW secures preferred access to
technologies that can also be used in its core business, for example, for
the remote management of technical devices. Prior to the investment decision
of the third largest German energy company, InterComponentWare AG was
exclusively held by private investors: the main investor is SAP co-founder
Dietmar Hopp, other shares are held by the management, the supervisory board
and employees of the ICW, as well as other private individuals. ICW has
specialized in eHealth solutions since it was founded in 1998. Its software
and hardware, as well as its services, improve the information flow in
health care and thus enable a further increase in the quality of medical
care. Among other things, ICW develops components for electronic health
card infrastructures. With its know-how acquired in this area, the company
supported the introduction of the eCard in Austria and advised the German
Ministry of Health in the context of the bIT4health consortium on the
introduction of the German electronic health card. ICW’s electronic health
card solution has already found practical application in an initial field
test. As early as the year 2000, ICW introduced LifeSensor, the first
electronic personal health record on the German market. Users of the
LifeSensor record can securely archive copies of their medical data online
and thus make them available to attending physicians in a clear structure at
all times. Among other applications, LifeSensor is used by a Bavarian
network of physicians with some 350 participating medical professionals,
which was recently certified in a study of the University of Erlangen as
being the most developed of all examined German and Swiss physicians'
networks. The ICW portfolio is rounded off by solutions for the secure
networking of clinics and practicing doctors, as well as for the efficient
control of disease management programs. All of these software components are
compatible with the future electronic health card and can exchange data with
the web-based LifeSensor health record, so that the flow of electronic data
so urgently required in health care can finally gain momentum.
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