iSoft’s medication viewer accredited

iSoft Netherlands has received accreditation from the National Institute for ICT in Healthcare to begin implementation of its Transmural Medication Viewer (TMV) in hospital pharmacies across the country.

The company is part of the Netherlands’ national e-health programme, known locally as the NICITIZ. Before deployment can begin, all software must pass the qualification process, ensuring solutions can connect to the national backbone of ICT infrastructure and will be compatible with the future Electronic Medical Record (EMR) project.

The aim of NICITIZ is for any authorised healthcare practitioner to be connected to the switch point so that he or she can obtain the latest and most relevant information about a patient at any time, from anywhere in the Netherlands, in a simple, secure and reliable way.

Wim Botermans, managing director, iSoft Netherlands told E-Health Europe: “This qualification is a first step on our way to providing customers with total EMR solutions. We are working in three fields in the country, hospitals, pharmacies and GPs as the market leaders, and we hope that we can be the first in the country to begin launching NICITIZ compliant solutions.”

The TMV will allow authorised persons to have an overview of all medication prescribed to a patient by pharmacists and clinicians throughout the Netherlands.

Anil Jadoenathmisier, operations manager at NICTIZ said: “We are very pleased with the qualification of iSoft. This is a major supplier that has acquired the qualification. A national EMR is becoming a reality very rapidly. This will provide more efficient processes, better information and more safety in healthcare.”

Implementation of the TMV will begin by January 2008 starting at St Jansdal Hospital in Harderwijk.

Botermans said: “Together with innovative customers like St Jansdal, we develop the adaptors necessary to connect with the national backbone. It proves again that iSoft is a leading ICT supplier that adapts and develops new ICT that complies with new law.”

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Joe Fernandez