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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 Change.
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 companies additional and concentrate on making knowledge extra accessible to its clients.
With this acquisition, the Rotterdam-based firm plans to create a single platform the place each Dutch particular person will quickly have the ability to view their medical knowledge, together with perception into the file of varied healthcare suppliers such because the hospital, basic practitioner, physiotherapist, or take care of the aged.
Additional, sufferers also can 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 obtainable and usable. This leads to the perfect affected person/shopper and care expertise,” states KPN.
Itzos: What it’s essential know
Based mostly out of Vianen, Utrecht, Itzos is a healthcare integration and knowledge administration options supplier within the Netherlands. Submit-acquisition, Itzos will function as an unbiased firm inside KPN Well being and its present administration will stay in place.
Mark van Dijk, director of Itzos, says, “For the perfect affected person/shopper and care expertise, collaboration and ample sharing of information are needed, 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 companies. With this acquisition, KPN Well being provides us a future-proof foundation for the additional improvement and operational administration of our companies.”
KPN Well being Change: What it’s essential know
KPN Well being Change 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 necessary function in preserving healthcare accessible and future-proof. With the KPN Well being Change, we facilitate this knowledge alternate in a safe and standardised method. KPN and Itzos have been engaged on the KPN Well being Change 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 Change companies and speed up the motion towards standardised and scalable platforms. Along with Itzos, we see alternatives to reply even higher to the rising demand from the marketplace for digital knowledge alternate that contributes to the additional digitisation of healthcare.”
