The National Dental Service in Skåne, Sweden, chooses the dental care system Effica from TietoEnator
The National Dental Service in Skåne, Sweden, chooses the dental care system Effica from TietoEnator The National Dental Service in Skåne chooses TietoEnator's Effica solution for the development of its dental care operations. The contract means that all of the 133 clinics within Skåne's National Dental Service will have access to complete IT support in their daily work. The order is TietoEnator's largest so far within the area and is valued at approximately EUR 2,2 million. Effica is complete IT support that includes digital medical records, booking system, receipts, attendance notice routines and remittance handling. The solution supports a modern dental care organization where the clinic work is based on teams in close collaboration with specialists. In the planning and following-up of the operations, consideration is taken to both financial and quality aspects. In addition, external digital X-rays and X-ray picture handling can also be coupled to the system. - For us the National Dental Service has been a large and important customer and we regard this as the beginning of a continued long-term co- operation. Together with the National Dental Service we wish to develop Effica into IT support that also comprises integrated digital picture handling and multimedia functions. Within the near future patients will also be able to have contact with the people responsible for their treatment via Internet solutions, says Ola Gustafson, MD of TietoEnator HealthCare. The National Dental Service in Skåne has approximately 1 600 employees working within general dental care and specialist dental care. TietoEnator is the leading supplier of IT solutions for health, medical and dental care in the Nordic countries. A total of approximately 300 employees in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark work within the area. For further information, please contact: TietoEnator: Ola Gustafson, MD TietoEnator HealthCare ola.gustafsson@tietoenator.com, +46 46 18 05 00 Ingvar Rydén, Business Manager, Dental Care, TietoEnator HealthCare ingvar.ryden@tietoenator.com, +46 46 18 05 00 The National Dental Service, Skåne: Karin Bengtsson, Dental Care Manager, National Dental Service, Skåne karin.m.bengtsson@skane.se, +46 46 15 33 30 Jan Paulics, Project Manager, National Dental Service, Skåne jan.paulics@skane.se, +46 40 33 39 60 With almost 11,000 employees and annual net sales of EUR 1.1 billion, TietoEnator is a leading supplier of high value-added IT services in Europe. TietoEnator specialises in consulting, building and hosting its customers' business operations in the digital economy. The Group's services are based on a combination of deep industry-specific expertise and latest information technology. www.tietoenator.com TIETOENATOR CORPORATION DISTRIBUTION Principal media ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/03/13/20020313BIT00270/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/03/13/20020313BIT00270/wkr0002.pdf