Web patient files for easy collaboration

T-Systems continues to invest in the market for online patient files. For this purpose, T-Systems participates in the Dutch company Portavita.

People with chronic desease have to deal with specialists, hospital doctors, labs, care givers and much more over a long period of time. In the future, they will be able to work together more effectively online. Electronic patient files are a simple way for them to look up the current status of a patient's treatment and adjust their decisions accordingly. These files contain different access rights to help the process along.

Healthcare industry network

Specialists and patients can use the solution to view medical data online. Information can be accessed via T-Systems' secure healthcare industry network. Tunneled connections guarantee data security. The procedure was recently approved by Rhineland-Palatinate's data privacy authorities.

"In the future, doctors and hospitals will be able to work more closely in terms of integrated care," Holger Hille, head of the T-Systems healthcare segment, says about the cooperation. "That's why we're investing in Portavita and, by doing so, adding a market-leading patient file to our portfolio." The shareholding is being conducted by T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's venture capital company.

In the Netherlands, the solution has already made it easier for countless doctors to communicate with each other. They are now able to view data online. Some 125,000 patients are being treated via the Portavita solution, contrary to doctors in Germany who still exchange around 15 million medical reports and hospitals still exchange 55 million files.