- Another success for Orchestra eHealth Suite: software solution impresses AOK‐Bundesverband
After granting x-tention and its partners the software licences to supply the Digital Health Network with the Orchestra eHealth Suite, the AOK-Bundesverband (German Federal Association of Public Health Insurance Funds) has also accepted the IT consortium’s bid to develop centralized and decentralized software components.
Together with two leading German IHE system software developers InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and soffico GmbH, complete IT solutions provider x-tention Informationstechnologie GmbH will be using the Orchestra eHealth Suite to develop AOK’s Digital Health Network over the coming months. The Digital Health Network will be a platform for exchanging data across Germany. Among its core features is an electronic patient record for all AOK members. According to Martin Litsch, Chairman of the Board at the AOK-Bundesverband, the electronic patient record is intended to provide AOK members with their own ‘digital healthcare hub, while enhancing the care they receive and streamlining the cooperation between stakeholders by connecting in- and out-patient personnel.’
Health information exchange in Baden‐Württemberg
The health information exchange project in Baden‐Württemberg is part of Germany’s nationwide Digital Health Network, connecting GPs and specialists in primary care with the AOK’s specialist care programme. x-tention helps the project to implement specialist applications for electronic doctors’ letters (eAB), electronic sick notes (eAU) and electronic medication information (HausKoMeT). There are plans to eventually integrate the health information exchange system between AOK, MEDI and HÄVG into the nationwide Digital Health Network. ‘The decentralized platform concept and the development of an integration engine using international standards such as IHE for local healthcare networks are significant developments for AOK,’ says Michael Noll, project manager for AOK’s Digital Health Network.
Furthermore, x-tention and its partners have used their extensive experience to help set up nationwide infrastructure projects such as the electronic health record (ELGA) in Austria and the electronic patient record (EPD) in Switzerland. The three companies are cooperating on numerous networking projects with electronic patient and case records in Germany. As the companies were awarded the contract by the AOK-Bundesverband, they are now working on Germany’s first Digital Health Network with the Orchestra eHealth Suite.
About x-tention and partners
x-tention Informationstechnologie GmbH harmonizes and integrates different IT systems in hospitals, social care institutions and retirement and nursing homes. Its bespoke solutions are built on the company’s long-standing experience with IT systems in health and social care as well as the extensive expertise of its team, comprising consultants, software developers and operations specialists.
soffico GmbH develops the innovative, future-proof standard software Orchestra Healthcare Edition. Orchestra connects IT systems in organizations and optimizes them across institutions in line with the standards in the healthcare sector.
With its internationally experienced team, InterComponentWare AG (ICW) has spent 20 years developing forward-thinking software solutions for secure, cross-institution data exchange in the healthcare sector. The ICW eHealth Suite provides powerful, mutually compatible modules that allow its customers to create tailored eHealth solutions.
