21/08-06   -   Press releases

ICW offers testimony on Personal Health Records to American Health Information Community

Washington, DC, August 21, 2006 – The American Health Information Community’s (AHIC) Consumer Empowerment Workgroup recently received information from invited panelists and the public on personal health records (PHRs), their functions, features, current usage, interoperability capabilities, and importance to health care. Testimony from InterComponentWare (ICW) featured information on its LifeSensor® PHR.

In his oral testimony, Mark Wallin, Vice President Business Development and Sales for ICW stated, “As a PHR capable of true interoperability, it [i.e. LifeSensor] links patients to their medical providers and practitioners and enables the efficient exchange of health-related information. With access to the PHR, authorized physicians can obtain an overview of patient history and other health data." ICW also submitted additional written testimony.

ICW’s PHR solution, LifeSensor, supports consumer empowerment by providing a medical primary system to the patient in which all relevant personal health data can be stored in a safe and concise way. Due to its interoperability capabilities, LifeSensor can also serve as a platform for patient authorized data sharing with all stakeholders in healthcare delivery.

ICW is engaged in a number of discussions in the US covering a cross-section of opportunities including PHR-centric interoperability and regional eHealth infrastructure networks.


For more information please contact:
InterComponentWare, Inc.
Nils Effertz
1840 Gateway Drive, Suite 228
San Mateo, CA 94404
Tel: 650-378-1481
Fax: 650-378-1490
eMail: nils.effertz@icw-global.com
www.us.icw-global.com
www.us.lifesensor.com


About InterComponentWare
InterComponentWare (ICW) is a leading international eHealth specialist with locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA, and Bulgaria. Its solutions for networking the various participants in the health care system achieve a sustained improvement in process-oriented communication and data integrity – and thus the quality of medical care. Among other things, ICW develops and markets software and hardware components for the healthcare IT infrastructure for the electronic health card, the personal health record LifeSensor, and network solutions for clinics and physicians in private practice. As part of the bIT4health consortium, ICW has provided important consulting services for the deployment of the electronic health card in Germany and is also involved in the Austrian eCard project.