Press Release 10/2006 Audience: Economy / IT / CeBIT 2006
Fraunhofer IBMT and InterSystems Sign Agreement about Applications in the Health Care Sector Migration of the D2D Medical Communication Solution to the Caché Post-Relational Database Agreed Hanover, March 14, 2006. At CeBIT 2006, Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (IBMT) St. Ingbert, Germany, and InterSystems, leading provider of application technology for the healthcare sector, have signed an agreement about using the Caché postrelational database in the D2D medical communication solution. The signed license agreement now covers the complete migration of the D2D servers operated by KV Nordrhein (Düsseldorf) for their medical doctors to the Caché post-relational database management system (DBMS). Objective of the migration is to ensure a better server performance and scalability to support the currently strongly increasing number of users and transactions. InterSystems is a global leading provider of application technology for IT solutions in the healthcare sector. The Fraunhofer IBMT has developed the D2D solution in cooperation with the KV Nordrhein and the KV BadenWürttemberg, and it is based on the technical approach of PaDok, an utmost secure communication solution for the healthcare sector. In the last few months InterSystems and IBMT have been collaborating to migrate the data management on the D2D communication server to the upto-date platform Caché. The first components of D2D have been migrated to Caché already before the trade fair Medica in November 2005. Under the agreement signed now the complete server operation of the KV Nordrhein will be migrated to Caché. Signing an additional agreement regarding the servers of KV BadenWürttemberg is planned for the middle of the year. (256 words / 1.728 characters) Contact: in-house Agentur +49-1801-585 585 6734
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Press Release 10/2006 Audience: Economy / IT / CeBIT 2006 About Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik Fraunhofer IBMT is one of nearly 60 institutes of the non-profit association „Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.“. The institutes cover different fields of activities, IBMT is specialized in dealing with assignments and topics in the fields of medical, biological and micro system technology and adjacent areas of expertise. For more than ten years a group of the institute has been working on a secure communication solution for the healthcare sector. The PaDok solution which is now being leveraged by the medical doctors of several associations of CHI physicians under the name „D2D - Doctor-to-doctor“ has been developed by this group. About InterSystems For over 25 years, InterSystems Corporation has been a technology innovation leader in database and integration software. The Caché postrelational database and Ensemble universal integration platform enable software developers in every industry sector to rapidly create, deploy and integrate high-performance applications. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and over twenty-five regional offices, InterSystems serves more than four million users around the world. For more information, visit www.InterSystems.com. For more information, please contact: InterSystems GmbH Peter Mengel Hilpertstraße 20a D-64295 Darmstadt Phone +49 (6151) 1747-0 Fax +49 (6151) 1747-11 PR@InterSystems.de www.InterSystems.de
Contact: in-house Agentur +49-1801-585 585 6734
in-house Agentur eK Michael Ihringer Kastanienallee 24 D-64289 Darmstadt Phone +49 (6151) 30830-0 Fax +49 (6151) 30830-11 ihringer@in-house.de www.in-house.de
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