- Deutsche Telekom presents digital patient’s file for the iPad
- Multistage security concept ensures reliable data protection
- Presentation at Telekom’s Booth D26 in Hall 4
Deutsche Telekom and Lohmann & Birkner Health Care Consulting GmbH are exhibiting at CeBIT the Checkpad MED, an iPad for physicians. The device is designed specially to fulfill doctors’ requirements and make their daily work easier by providing them with mobile access to patients’ digital files at any time. When they start their shift, for example, medics can check out all of their ward news fast. They can see immediately whether new patients have been admitted or new test results are available. The Checkpad MED retrieves all of this data from a central server. The server accesses the clinic’s data sources via interfaces and processes them to be displayed on the iPad. Information can come from the Clinic Information System or from subsystems such as radiology archives. All patient’s data constantly available on one device "We are currently testing the Checkpad MED’s suitability for daily use in a clinic environment. So far, doctors are delighted with the tablet PC because they can use it not only to read the patient’s master data but also to check his or her medical history, doctors’ letters, laboratory and operating room reports, and CAT scan images in high-resolution quality," says Dr. Axel Wehmeier, head of the Deutsche Telekom Group’s healthcare business unit. "The iPad is much easier and more comfortable to use then a laptop. That is why it is especially suitable for hospital doctors who ought always to have all of the relevant patients’ data at the ready when discussing cases or going on their ward rounds," says Dr. Rüdiger Lohmann, Managing Director of Lohmann & Birkner Health Care Consulting GmbH. "Even when talking with patients or discussing cases they can answer any questions that arise immediately and explain by means of data and images," Dr. Lohmann adds. Multistage security concept Individual Checkpad MED users’ user data can be managed via a conventional Web browser, with a multistage concept ensuring data security. Individual physicians can be assigned different authorizations, thereby defining who, for example, can only read documents and who can amend them. Data is also always transmitted encrypted and via a protected tunnel that is separate from the public Internet. For each authorized user there are certificates without which data is not accessible. Every time a user logs in, the Checkpad server is asked whether the iPad and the user in question are registered. If a device is reported missing, the server deletes immediately by remote access all data that is stored on the iPad on an interim basis. Data can be transmitted either via a WLAN local network or via broadband using the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) standard at download speeds of up to 14.4 megabits per second. For UMTS transmission the Checkpad MED is equipped with a Telekom SIM card. At CeBIT, Telekom and Lohmann & Birkner Health Care Consulting GmbH are presenting the Checkpad MED at Telekom’s Booth D26 in Hall 4.
About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 129 million mobile customers, approximately 36 million fixed-network lines and more than 16 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2010). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in over 50 countries and has around 247,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2010). About T-Systems Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's some 47,600 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers’ core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 9.1 billion in the 2010 financial year. About Lohmann & Birkner Health Care Consulting GmbH Berlin-based Lohmann & Birkner Health Care Consulting GmbH is with around 100 employees one of the leading service and IT providers in the German healthcare system. Lohmann & Birkner develops and sells software, provides medically oriented case and care management services, and consulting services for healthcare service providers.