The Swedish national IT strategy for the health care sector, drawn up by the working group that was set up by Sweden's Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, singles out the National Integrated Patient Summary as one of its highest priorities.

dbMotion's Solution enables each of the parties within the health care sector to retain its existing information within its original location and format, while at the same time the patient information will be connected up to a national system so that the patient's overall medical information can be viewed in one integrated interface.

Different clinics have a need for different medical information solutions. The problem today is that it is not possible to view lab results, a patient's case notes or procedures and tests performed at other locations. The result is a threat to patient safety and quality care due to decisions being made based on partial medical information and the resulting repetition of tests and unnecessary examinations. These consequences place an additional burden not only on the patient's time and safety but also incur a major expense for society.

"No technical solution has previously existed for attaining the national vision of 'one patient - one record'. The county councils that have wanted to create a patient overview system have been forced to build it themselves, which has been very expensive both in terms of development and management. dbMotion has a standardised and packaged product which is relatively easy to integrate into the existing system," says HÃ¥kan Petersson, Head of Capgemini's public sector in Sweden.

dbMotion and the Capgemini group's intention is to build cooperation throughout Europe. As a consequence, Capgemini is now launching its collaboration with dbMotion with Sweden as an introductory market in order to subsequently expand the cooperation to the rest of Europe.

"Capgemini has the resources and competence to be a very important partner in establishing ourselves in Sweden and in other European markets. Capgemini's strength is that it can act as the facilitator in relation to the healthcare sector and assume responsibility for implementation of the dbMotion solution," states Ronen Avron, dbMotion's Vice President of International Sales.

dbMotion is one of the world's leading suppliers of Health Information Integration and Exchange solutions and as such is well positioned to help form a national health information system. With six years of experience in implementing health information exchange and customers in the USA, Holland and Israel, dbMotion offers a standardised and ready-packaged solution in order to integrate local, regional and national healthcare IT systems into one national solution.

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About dbMotion
dbMotion is a provider of Web-based data-sharing technology that helps facilitate regional health information organizations and health information exchange (RHIOs and HIE) by giving participating healthcare organizations secure access to select components of patient medical files maintained at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common technology through which to share data. The dbMotion™ Solution has been fully-operational for the past six years – serving close to five million patients representing more than two billion individual records of clinical information. For more information on dbMotion visit www.dbmotion.com

About Capgemini
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology, and Outsourcing services, has a unique way of working with its clients, which it calls the Collaborative Business Experience. Through commitment of mutual success and the achievement of tangible value, the company helps businesses implement growth strategies, leverage technology and thrive through the power of collaboration. Capgemini employs approximately 61,000 worldwide and reported 2005 global revenues of about 7 billion euros. More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at www.capgemini.com.