SQLI Groupe, the leading provider of identity management services in healthcare in France, and Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise master person index (EMPI) software for organisations that want to create complete views of patient information from data dispersed across multiple facilities, today announced a strategic agreement in principle to introduce best of breed, industry-strength patient identification and matching solutions to the French healthcare market. The agreement will enable SQLI to offer the Initiate Identity HubTM software as part of their fuller services portfolio. The Initiate Identity HubTM software is a world class solution proven to be one of the most accurate, scalable and rapidly implemented EMPI available.
Building upon SQLI's very successful services to support the IdeoPass initiative, the company will now be able to offer enriched functionality and a future-proof solution to meet the rapidly growing needs for accurate, scalable and robust patient identification and interoperability across the healthcare enterprise The Initiate Identity HubTM solution provides a critical foundation for all electronic health record (EHR) implementations - either within the hospital, out into the local community or across regional or even national boundaries.
Omar Mrani, Director Programs e-Health at SQLI, said today: "Building a unique patient identifier is a key requirement for the secure exchange of medical data between health professionals. The Initiate technology is extremely flexible and allows us to accurately link disparate and fragmented records to create a single comprehensive patient record, using any combination of demographic data, individual system and local identifiers. Our initial objective is to complete our range of Ideo Sante solutions by offering a complete and highly effective solution for identity management for the health sector and in time to offer this to other sectors, such as telecommunications, financial services and the public sector."
"We are very excited about working with SQLI," said Tony Bowden, Vice President Business Development EMEA Initiate Systems. "The healthcare industry brings its own distinct set of challenges with data security, privacy, data quality and interoperability as very high priorities. We recognise and applaud the pioneering emphasis within France on giving the patient the ability to control their own healthcare information. This puts effective, modern, automated identity management at the very centre of ICT systems for healthcare. With SQLI as a proven market leader in both e-Health and e-Business solutions we very much look forward to working with them initially in healthcare then across all their markets."
This agreement is a reflection of a shared desire to help healthcare organisations improve the quality of care offered to patients and to offer new services, in a totally secure manner and in compliance with all relevant legislation.
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About SQLI Groupe
The SQLI Groupe is a value added services company. It is one of the major players in the French market, with 10 regional offices (Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Dijon, Strasbourg, Nantes at Poitiers). The company is also active in Switzerland (Lausanne and Geneva), in Luxemburg, in Morocco (Rabat, Casablanca and Oujda) and in Canada (Montreal).
SQLI Groupe employs 1400 people and in 2006 its turnover was 91.1M. The targeted turnover for 2007 is 120 M. SQLI was listed on the Nouveau Marche on 21st July 2000 (code SICOVAM: 7547).
For more information please visit www.sqli.com
About Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of customer-centric master data management and enterprise master person index solutions for companies, healthcare organisations and government agencies that want to create the most complete, real-time views of people, households and organisations from data dispersed across multiple application systems and databases. Initiate Identity Hub software is more accurate, scalable, rapidly deployed and widely used than any other solution. Many organisations in the financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality and retail sectors are using Initiate software to deliver the right data at the right time to all critical touch points. Initiate Systems proven experience makes it uniquely qualified to enable strategic initiatives that allow organisations to increase revenue and efficiency and reduce operating costs and risks. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., a Canadian office in Toronto, an EMEA office in London and a Pacific Rim office in Sydney. For more information on Initiate Systems, visit www.initiatesystems.com