With more than 350 speakers, 570 exhibitors and almost 11,000 visitors – up 8% on the previous year – the Berlin trade show proved a hit for conhIT’s successor DMEA, Europe’s largest digital health event. The trade show also went extremely well for x-tention, a complete IT solutions provider from Wels, Austria.
The three days spent at the trade show in Berlin proved a success for x-tention. Visitor numbers were up on each day of this year’s show compared with the previous year. Visitors enquired just as much about the Orchestra communication server as they did about the company’s range of products and services for data networking, clinical information systems, eMedication, information security, data protection and electronic patient records.
x-tention currently uses Orchestra Healthcare Edition to implement specialist applications for electronic doctors’ letters (eAB), electronic medication information (HausKoMeT) and electronic sick notes (eAU) as part of the health information exchange in Baden‐Württemberg. The programme is a part of Digital Health Network initiative by the AOK (German statutory insurance fund), which uses the Orchestra eHealth Suite software solution from x-tention and its partners. ‘My personal DMEA highlight was the keynote given at our exhibition stands by AOK’s Heike Nowotnik, who is Head of IT Control, and Michael Noll, who manages the Digital Health Network project. The crowd of visitors learned all about AOK’s Digital Health Network first-hand from the experts,’ says x-tention Managing Director Herbert Stöger. He continues: ‘We’re the perfect partner for developing different medical record solutions in Germany because we have extensive experience working on numerous networking projects around electronic health and case records and setting up nationwide infrastructure projects such as the ELGA in Austria and the EPD in Switzerland.’
DMEA visitors were also keen to find out about i.s.h.med and x-tention’s experience with clinical information systems and networking clinical applications. These give doctors, carers and healthcare professionals the best possible support in their patient work, providing them with the specific information they need and a simple documentation process. At this year’s DMEA, x-tention employees Volker Wegert and Daniel Sonnabend presented their brand-new book i.s.h.med MCI – Message Communication Infrastructure. Drawing on their wealth of experience, the book starts with basic concepts and covers everything from possible configurations to developing your own components.
‘Our standard MCI components for the most common interface specifications enable us to cover our i.s.h.med customers’ current needs precisely. Seamlessly transferring data, such as medication information, beyond system boundaries is one of today’s major challenges,’ explains team leader Michaela Winkler.
The Regulation on the Identification of Critical Infrastructure (BSI-KritisV) comes into effect on 28 June in Germany, and the transition period for implementing the Network and Information System Security Act (NIS-G) in Austria has started after its enactment at the end of 2018. As such, there is a massive demand for data protection, information security and compliance in health and social care. ‘The visitors we were talking to wanted to know more about models for quickly setting up an ISMS and establishing an external information security officer,’ says Head of Information Security, Michael Punz.
This year’s trade show was x-tention’s first as a DMEA career partner, and its involvement in the scheme has definitely proved worthwhile. Stall holders had lots of interesting conversations with students who wanted to find out about the variety of career options. They had prepared over 700 goody bags for the students, and the last ones were given out early afternoon on the last day of the show. ‘The career partnership with the DMEA has allowed us to meet over 700 students from computer science and business information systems courses, and we got to tell them about the exciting careers opportunities with the x-tention group. The first application that was made as a result of meeting us in Berlin landed in our inbox just three days after the trade show. We look forward to receiving many more,’ says Head of HR Isabella Steinmayr, inviting potential candidates to find out more about career opportunities and vacancies on x-tention.com.
