Roche Diabetes Care and ICW announce technology partnership
09.09.2010 16:52
New solutions for a better exchange of information between doctors and patients
Roche Diabetes Care – a global leader in diabetes self-management – and eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) today announced a multi-year global partnership to jointly develop a new generation of web-based solutions for efficient diabetes management. The structured evaluation and transmission of blood sugar and insulin values is the basis of effective diabetes treatment. To this day, this poses a considerable challenge for people with diabetes as well as doctors and diabetes consultants. The stated goal of the collaboration between Roche Diabetes Care and ICW announced today is to develop a solution that facilitates the exchange of information between patients and healthcare professionals.
Based on the very successful Accu-Chek® 360° software and the powerful ICW eHealth Framework (eHF) as well as other components, Roche Diabetes Care and ICW will jointly develop a technology platform that will enable the communication and secure exchange of therapy-relevant data over the Internet . The technology platform is intended to allow patients and medical professionals to treat diabetes even more effectively. The Accu-Chek 360° software already offers a well-structured display and evaluation of blood sugar and insulin values. It makes it easier for doctors and diabetes consultants as well as people with diabetes to make appropriate treatment decisions and thus contributes to improved medical results.
Burkhard G. Piper, President Roche Diabetes Care, explains: “We conducted an extensive search for a technology partner and are pleased that ICW was chosen. Our goal is to continually improve the exchange of information between patients and the professionals who care for them. We would like to offer new solutions that simplify the regular and structured exchange of health-relevant data, because this structured data is the key to dialogue and promising therapy decisions. The combined expertise of both companies will enable us to leverage web-based technologies and make significant advances at the interface between patients and healthcare professionals.”
“The technology partnership with Roche Diabetes Care represents a highlight of our development work to date,” explains Peter Kirschbauer, ICW CEO. “Roche Diabetes Care will efficiently use the ICW eHealth Framework – as well as our successful information sharing applications that meet the highest security standards. Together we will develop new and innovative approaches to communicating and sharing relevant data for efficient diabetes management. We are very pleased to have Roche Diabetes Care as a partner.”