Committed to the Open Source Movement in Healthcare
Established
16 October 1998
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healthcare businesses bought by McKessonHBOC
Three healthcare ICT companies in Europe have been taken over by McKessonHBOC. The company has bought ICL's two healthcare IT businesses in the Netherlands: SIAC (based at Maarssen; customers include 18 acute hospitals and 15 psychiatric units) and VPI Gezondheidszorg (based at Waardenburg; 120 customers including teaching hospitals and large regional care centres). McKessonHBOC has also bought Cap Gemini's healthcare business in France. Division lnformatique Hospitaii6re(HITD), which has 120 staff and is primarily a software house developing hospital. administration and finance applications for large public hospitals, was part of the French Ministry of Health before Cap Gemini bought it in 1991. McKessonHBOC's UK Managing Director and European Vice-President Bryan Wrighton said he believes the economic climate is now right for expansion in Europe. "The world-wide pressures to contain healthcare costs are creating major opportunities for advanced technology solutions. Markets that were previously closed to outsiders are now starting to open because of a convergence in healthcare practices and moves to electronic healthcare records", he said. |
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