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CompuGROUP and Knappschaft Bahn See launch pilot programme for integrated treatment of diabetes patients

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CompuGROUP Holding AG, the e-health service
company with the broadest reach among service providers world-wide, 
is now supporting the integrated treatment of patients suffering from
Type 2 diabetes mellitus through its subsidiary GIV.  Client 
Knappschaft Bahn See expects the programme to provide more effective 
patient care and reduce costs significantly.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, Knappschaft Bahn See and the 
CompuGROUP subsidiary Gesellschaft für angewandte integrierte 
Versorgungsformen (GiV) mbH in the Saarland launched an innovative, 
fully practicable, integrated treatment programme: prosper 
Versorgungs-management Diabetes. The goal is to optimize treatment in
order to improve the health of manifest diabetics and risk patients 
on a sustained basis. Apart from this top-priority medical goal, the 
programme is also expected to reduce the consequential costs of 
diabetes, which account for up to 80% of total treatment costs for 
these patients.
The foundation of the prosper programme is a health-care network 
established by Knappschaft and composed of family doctors, 
specialists and hospitals in a given region. The prosper Saar 
health-care network consists of over 300 physicians, of whom 50 are 
now participating in the interdisciplinary, cross- sector prosper 
Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes programme.
The heart of prosper Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes consists of a 
central, indication-based case file and an innovative diagnostic and 
treatment path derived from data contained in the file - both 
elements developed by CompuGROUP. All relevant information is entered
in the file by participating physicians. It includes comprehensive 
treatment data on Type 2 diabetes patients as well as information 
about identified risk patients. On the basis of this medical data, 
the treatment path provides specific guideline-oriented 
recommendations for treatment teams at the moment a medical decision 
needs to be made. The diabetes mellitus path was developed by the 
medical team at CompuGROUP in consultation with the renowned expert 
Prof. Dr. Werner Scherbaum of Düsseldorf. "Our goal is to offer 
doctors only those 'bits of information' they really need - at 
precisely the right moment and integrated directly into the 
physician's workflow", explains Frank Ladendorf, Managing Director of
GiV.
Prof. Dr. med. Werner Scherbaum, Director of the Endocrinology, 
Diabetology and Rheumatology Clinic at the Düsseldorf University 
Hospital, goes one step further: "The prosper Versorgungsmanagement 
Diabetes programme responds to the repeatedly expressed appeal for a 
practicable diagnostic and treatment system controlled primarily by 
family physicians. Specialist treatment can be integrated without 
difficulty. Making the best use of existing resources, developing 
them through innovation and thus doing more for patients and their 
health - these are the primary objectives of prosper 
Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes."
Frank Ladendorf emphasizes the potential savings for health insurers:
"We are already seeing evidence that prosper Versorgungsmanagement 
Diabetes enhances the efficiency of patient treatment while ensuring 
quality and cost- effectiveness on a sustainable basis. Our software 
makes a valuable contribution in that context. I'm sure", Ladendorf 
adds, "that other health insurers will soon be using 
intelligent-software-aided systems of this kind to increase 
efficiency as well."
"We hope to find out", says Hans Adolf Müller, Health Management 
Director at Knappschaft Bahn See, "whether this innovative 
decision-support system will enable us to help our policyholders more
effectively and to provide more systematic support to treating 
physicians and their teams."  CompuGROUP has proven to be a strong 
partner. As the market leader, CompuGROUP has broad, central access 
to practising physicians thanks to the widespread use of its 
physicians' information system.
According to Frank Ladendorf, "Treatment management systems of this 
kind work only if they are accepted by physicians. We gain that 
acceptance by integrating the system into existing workflows and by 
ensuring complete transparency - with respect to prescriptions, for 
example." The pilot project is scheduled to run until the end of 
2009, after which it will be evaluated for the purpose of assessing 
the practicability and the added benefits of this form of integrated 
treatment. If the positive results shown thus far are confirmed, the 
programme will be launched on a broad basis and expanded to include 
other guideline- oriented patient paths for other widespread diseases
in 2010.
About CompuGROUP Holding AG CompuGROUP is one of the leading e-health
companies worldwide. Its software products, designed to support all 
medical and organizational activities in doctors' offices and 
hospitals, its information services for all parties involved in the 
healthcare system and its web-based personal health records 
contribute towards safer and more efficient healthcare. The services 
of CompuGROUP are based on its unique customer base of around 326,000
doctors, dentists, hospitals and networks as well as other service 
providers. CompuGROUP is the e-health company with the biggest 
coverage among e-health service providers worldwide. The company 
operates in 14 European countries, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South 
Africa and in the USA and currently employs around 2,700 people.
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