For more than ten years ICW has been developing innovative solutions for the healthcare market. Now, under the slogan "connect. manage. personalize," ICW has brought together its most successful technologies and products to create a new, powerful ICW eHealth Platform. The new platform enables anyone to realize integrative, high-quality processes to improve the quality of care in public health based on international standards. The platform represents a robust response to the global market demands for standardization, flexibility, openness, interoperability and investment protection. The ICW eHealth Platform is designed to attract customers and partners in the international healthcare market. It is intended especially for use by professional healthcare organizations and facilities, the life sciences industry, and by businesses of private ("second") healthcare markets and their partners.

ICW eHealth Platform - A basis for technically sophisticated, modular and secure eHealth applications and services
ICW combines its core competencies in the development of IHE-based networking solutions with years of experience in IT-assisted care management and patient-centric eHealth applications, building them onto a single platform. This new platform's modular and scalable architecture offers the flexibility necessary to address a wide spectrum of eHealth scenarios and enables the construction of solutions that are both comprehensive and robust.

ICW will be focusing on the following topics:

• connect - International standards-based networking
  ICW's networking solutions bring medical information and digital imagery together securely across boundaries between departments, facilities or different sectors of the healthcare system. They are based on IHE standards, allowing medical services providers to connect with regional, national and even international networks, no matter how heterogeneous the technology involved. Two component applications of the ICW eHealth Platform, the ICW Master Patient Index and the ICW Professional Exchange Server are ready for use today by customers and partners.
• manage - Pragmatic solutions for new forms of care
  ICW is the leading technology supplier for efficient contract management for different and innovative forms of medical care. Already in use is "ICW Core", a base software solution used to manage a variety of contract and medical care plans that is easy to integrate into the medical care provider's primary IT system. ICW also develops holistic solutions for health management organizations to manage medical care programs moreeffectively.
• personalize - B2B business with Personal Health Solutions
  To the suppliers of health products and services ICW offers a spectrum of modern tools for winning and retaining clients, members and customers. The ICW eHealth Platform, combined with ICW's more than ten years of developmental experience with the LifeSensor electronic health record, creates individual, custom-tailored personal health solutions ranging from online applications to Web portals. International data security standards guarantee the highest level of data protection.

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About ICW
ICW stands for pioneering, innovative health care information technology. We develop robust solutions to make processes in medical care better and more efficient. Together with our partners, our goal is to integrate the actors and systems in the healthcare system, to optimize the opportunities for innovative collaboration. As a supplier of technologies and solutions, we deliver compatible eHealth infrastructures and applications to the providers of health services. Technologies by ICW make it possible for institutions and enterprises to expand and network their existing IT infrastructure, and to disseminate patient data in a secure environment. For more information go to www.icw-global.com.