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Rotterdam-based KPN, a telecommunications and IT supplier, introduced on Tuesday, January 3, that it has acquired integration and knowledge administration firm Itzos to strengthen its digital healthcare division, KPN Well being Alternate.
KPN didn’t disclose the monetary particulars of the deal.
In response to KPN, the acquisition was constructed upon current collaborations to develop its digital well being providers additional and give attention to making knowledge extra accessible to its clients.
With this acquisition, the Rotterdam-based firm plans to create a single platform the place each Dutch individual will quickly have the ability to view their medical knowledge, together with perception into the file of assorted healthcare suppliers such because the hospital, basic practitioner, physiotherapist, or look after the aged.
Additional, sufferers can even add self-measured well being knowledge, equivalent to from a pedometer or a blood stress monitor.
“By enabling knowledge sharing, a collaboration between healthcare establishments turns into simpler, and healthcare info turns into digitally out there and usable. This leads to one of the best affected person/consumer and care expertise,” states KPN.
Itzos: What it’s worthwhile to know
Primarily based out of Vianen, Utrecht, Itzos is a healthcare integration and knowledge administration options supplier within the Netherlands. Submit-acquisition, Itzos will function as an impartial firm inside KPN Well being and its present administration will stay in place.
Mark van Dijk, director of Itzos, says, “For one of the best affected person/consumer and care expertise, collaboration and satisfactory sharing of information are obligatory, as all disciplines throughout the healthcare sector are conscious of this. Our options for integrating and exchanging knowledge have already confirmed themselves in healthcare, from hospitals to laboratories and establishments for aged care to psychological well being care. KPN has the technological experience and industry-leading infrastructure to extend the scalability of our options to fulfill the rising market demand for knowledge alternate providers. With this acquisition, KPN Well being gives us a future-proof foundation for the additional growth and operational administration of our providers.”
KPN Well being Alternate: What it’s worthwhile to know
KPN Well being Alternate is a KPN service that helps healthcare establishments with knowledge infrastructure to make healthcare info accessible to sufferers, healthcare professionals, and eHealth functions in a safe and standardised method.
Vinood Mangroelal, director of KPN Well being, says, “Entry to healthcare knowledge performs an essential position in holding healthcare accessible and future-proof. With the KPN Well being Alternate, we facilitate this knowledge alternate in a safe and standardised method. KPN and Itzos have been engaged on the KPN Well being Alternate for a while, with Itzos primarily specializing in knowledge administration and integration. With the extra experience and options of Itzos, we enrich our KPN Well being Alternate providers and speed up the motion towards standardised and scalable platforms. Along with Itzos, we see alternatives to reply even higher to the growing demand from the marketplace for digital knowledge alternate that contributes to the additional digitisation of healthcare.”
