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	Development of Three Hospital Information Systems Using Adabas and Natural Software AG

Development of Three Hospital Information Systems Using Adabas and Natural

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	CSC Scandihealth aimed to become a market leader in Denmark within electronic patient records, maintain the Nordic countries as a home market, and develop the company into a “Centre of Excellence” within European healthcare. The company needed to choose a new technology for their IT solutions in the 1980s. They wanted an effective development tool suitable for creating a standard system for developing patient records. They studied five different solutions from various suppliers before deciding on Software AG because they offered the most flexible development tools and were easy to communicate with. Read More
About Customer	CSC Scandihealth is the largest healthcare IT company in Denmark. They deliver electronic patient record systems to the health sector and nursing records to Danish local authorities. The company also operates many of its customers’ IT systems. This work requires a staff of well-trained IT professionals with healthcare experience. The CSC Scandihealth headquarters is located in Aarhus and the sales office in Taastrup. The company employs a staff of approximately 280 within software development, operations and technical support, consulting, services, sales, and marketing. Read More
Solution	The development of healthcare solutions is based on the Adabas database system and the development language Natural, both from Software AG. Using these tools, CSC Scandihealth developed three large systems which have been used for a substantial number of years in hospitals and health insurance. These systems are GS, GSåben, and OPUS. OPUS patientforløb and OPUS Booking together make up a completely new patient administration system with a graphical user interface, modern word processing, and new, sophisticated booking and planning features. The work with these products is limited to a small amount of further development and “budding”. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

CSC Scandihealth aimed to become a market leader in Denmark within electronic patient records, maintain the Nordic countries as a home market, and develop the company into a “Centre of Excellence” within European healthcare. The company needed to choose a new technology for their IT solutions in the 1980s. They wanted an effective development tool suitable for creating a standard system for developing patient records. They studied five different solutions from various suppliers before deciding on Software AG because they offered the most flexible development tools and were easy to communicate with.

About Customer

CSC Scandihealth is the largest healthcare IT company in Denmark. They deliver electronic patient record systems to the health sector and nursing records to Danish local authorities. The company also operates many of its customers’ IT systems. This work requires a staff of well-trained IT professionals with healthcare experience. The CSC Scandihealth headquarters is located in Aarhus and the sales office in Taastrup. The company employs a staff of approximately 280 within software development, operations and technical support, consulting, services, sales, and marketing.

Solution

The development of healthcare solutions is based on the Adabas database system and the development language Natural, both from Software AG. Using these tools, CSC Scandihealth developed three large systems which have been used for a substantial number of years in hospitals and health insurance. These systems are GS, GSåben, and OPUS. OPUS patientforløb and OPUS Booking together make up a completely new patient administration system with a graphical user interface, modern word processing, and new, sophisticated booking and planning features. The work with these products is limited to a small amount of further development and “budding”.

Impact #1	CSC Scandihealth became the largest player in the Nordic countries in terms of turnover and market shares.
Impact #2	The health sector is able to coordinate efforts and focus follow-up measures, both in terms of professional efforts and resource allocation using CSC Healthcare’s IT solutions.
Impact #3	The systems developed using Software AG's tools have been important for CSC Scandihealth's existence and will continue to be so for a long time.

Impact #1

CSC Scandihealth became the largest player in the Nordic countries in terms of turnover and market shares.

Impact #2

The health sector is able to coordinate efforts and focus follow-up measures, both in terms of professional efforts and resource allocation using CSC Healthcare’s IT solutions.

Impact #3

The systems developed using Software AG's tools have been important for CSC Scandihealth's existence and will continue to be so for a long time.

Benefit #1	Approximately 70,000 users of CSC Scandihealth’s HIS systems - GS, GSåben and OPUS.

Benefit #1

Approximately 70,000 users of CSC Scandihealth’s HIS systems - GS, GSåben and OPUS.

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Development of Three Hospital Information Systems Using Adabas and Natural

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