The introduction of the integrated care network approach in primary care has led to new information exchanges amongst caregivers and between caregivers and the care group. On April 1st, HIS suppliers PharmaPartners B.V., Promedico ICT B.V., KIS (integrated care network systems) supplier Portavia B.V. and VitalHealth Software B.V. have signed a cooperation agreement with the purpose of creating open standards for integrations between HIS and KIS systems. This initiative is a pragmatic answer to current market demands. The HIS-KIS agreement has the goal of creating optimal IT support for integrated care networks with a complete electronic medical record solution, to avoid the need for repeated data entry.

The efforts of the parties involved will initially focus on supporting the Diabetes treatment process in primary care. The introduction of integrated care networks has resulted in two important information channels. The first concerns the exchange of relevant patient information between care givers in the network. The second concerns the exchange of non-patient specific information between care groups and care givers, such as administrative and management information. The goal of the HIS-KIS agreement is to enable a smooth transition of one channel to the other.

The IT suppliers involved will together design a blueprint and interfaces to achieve reliable and secure exchange of data between the various information systems. This project aims to create a functional standardization of (process) integration between HIS and KIS, resulting in a complete electronic medical record for the physicians. The integration design will be based on open communication standards and unified semantic interoperability, to be adopted and used by other HIS-KIS suppliers as well. To achieve this goal there will be a close cooperation with organizations focused on standardizations in healthcare.

The realization of this project will be a significant step forward in providing optimal support for integrated care networks.

PharmaPartners B.V. is the supplier of the GP information system Medicom®.
Mr. Robi Nederlof: +31 162 42 39 36

Promedico ICT B.V. is the supplier of GP information systems Promedico and Promedico ASP.
Mr. Marcel Kok: +31 30 601 66 20

Portavita B.V. is the supplier of the integrated care network solution Portavita.
Mr. Evert Jan Hoijtink: +31 20 531 56 00

VitalHealth Software B.V. is the supplier of a.o. the integrated care network solution Vital voor Diabetes.
Mr. Laurens van der Tang: +31 318 65 77 30