EANS-News: Patient-centered Treatment with Software Assisted Medicine (SAM)

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Subtitle: CompuGroup Medical invests 130 million euros in the healthcare system

Koblenz (euro adhoc) - April 11, 2011: It´s already a reality, patient-centered
medicine that is supported through intelligent software. The so-called software
assisted medicine provides the physician with patient-specific information for
pending decisions - precisely when it is needed. TenScan, a CompuGroup Medical
innovation, structures the medical data to provide this information.

CompuGroup Medical AG will invest 130 million euros in the healthcare system
within the next five years, for future-oriented product development. A series
of articles provides information about the innovations.

During the treatment discussion, the physician must pay attention to a host of
information as medical knowledge doubles approximately every four years; in
addition, the patient record includes numerous diagnoses. How can the multitude
of relevant criteria be grasped in a comprehensive manner? Medical histories
are often very complex and medical knowledge is too extensive to be able to
pick out all of the relevant factors and include them in the decision. In order
to be able to better utilize this multitude of knowledge for medical decisions,
CompuGroup Medical´s SAM systems supports physicians in their daily work.

However, in order to provide technical assistance, medical knowledge in a
standardized format is necessary - data can only be linked, combined and
compared if they are available in a uniform and structured manner. However,
many medical documentation systems currently operate with informal text
entries. Even numbers are often stored in an unstructured text format and great
effort is required for computers to correctly evaluate them.

For that reason, CompuGroup Medical developed a technology called TenScan that
has distinctly improved this problem. TenScan instructs various systems in how
to determine and structure clinically relevant data and make the data available
in a systematized manner via standardized interfaces.

In order to realize TenScan, CompuGroup Medical´s team of experts created
extensive catalogs of medical parameters for all relevant data areas that could
occur in the medical office. Based on these parameters, algorithms prepare the
respective data in such a manner that they can be processed by diverse systems.
The various SAM modules then access the data that is now available, analyze
their content and combine the information contained therein.

CompuGroup advocates for the best healthcare: based on the TenScan, individual
information can be calculated for each patient and made available to the
physician directly during treatment. This way, the physician is able to base
his decisions on high-quality knowledge and the patient discussion remains the
focus of treatment.

About CompuGroup Medical AG

CompuGroup Medical is one of the leading eHealth companies in the world. Its
software products are 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. CompuGroup
Medical´s services are based on a unique customer base of over 380,000 doctors,
dentists, hospitals and networks as well as other service providers. CompuGroup
Medical is the eHealth company with one of the highest coverage among eHealth
service providers worldwide. Approximately 3300 highly qualified employees in
25 countries support customers with innovative solutions for the steadily
growing demands of the healthcare system.

Further inquiry note:
CompuGroup Medical AG
Barbara Müller
Consultant Press & Media
P +49 (0) 261 8000-1293
F +49 (0) 261 8000-3284
E-Mail: press@cgm.com
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company: CompuGroup Medical AG
Maria Trost 21
D-56070 Koblenz
phone: +49 (0) 261 8000-0
FAX: +49 (0) 261 8000-1166
mail: investor@cgm.com
WWW: www.cgm.com
sector: Software
ISIN: DE0005437305
indexes:
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt, free trade: Berlin,
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, München
language: English

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