Abraxas to Implement ICW's Master Patient Index in St. Gallen

The contract consortium of hospitals in St. Gallen has assigned Abraxas responsibility as general contractor for the installation of an MPI based on IHE PIX integration profiles at the Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen, in the Rheintal Werdenberg Sarganserland hospital region, in Linth, in the hospital region Fürstenland Toggenberg, and in the geriatric clinic (Bürgerspital). This solution enables all patients stored in the IT systems of participating hospitals to be clearly identified. The cantonal eHealth Strategy foresees that exchange of structured data between in-patient facilities in the canton of St. Gallen will be enabled by 2010. With the implementation of the system, the canton provides all of the necessary preconditions for integrating additional facilities while being optimally prepared to exchange data also across cantonal boundaries.

For its offered solution, Abraxas is building on competent partners: BINT GmbH, the business integration specialist from Winterthur, will be actively involved in its implementation. The solution is based on the Master Patient Index, a component of Professional Suite by InterComponentWare AG (ICW), an international eHealth specialist. This solution had already been chosen earlier this summer by Hirslanden, Switzerland's leading private hospital group. ICW's networking solution does not require the existing IT systems used in the hospitals to be replaced, because the exchange of data is based on established standards such as HL7 and IHE profiles. The MPI is extremely capable: In tests involving 100 million datasets and up to one thousand simultaneous queries, its response time was consistently under one second. That makes the solution practicable also for larger patient populations up to and including its use as a building block for a national Swiss eHealth strategy.

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