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Koblenz (euro adhoc) - CompuGROUP Holding AG, the e-health service
company with the broadest reach among service providers world-wide,
is now supporting the integrated treatment of patients suffering from
Type 2 diabetes mellitus through its subsidiary GIV. Client
Knappschaft Bahn See expects the programme to provide more effective
patient care and reduce costs significantly.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, Knappschaft Bahn See and the
CompuGROUP subsidiary Gesellschaft für angewandte integrierte
Versorgungsformen (GiV) mbH in the Saarland launched an innovative,
fully practicable, integrated treatment programme: prosper
Versorgungs-management Diabetes. The goal is to optimize treatment in
order to improve the health of manifest diabetics and risk patients
on a sustained basis. Apart from this top-priority medical goal, the
programme is also expected to reduce the consequential costs of
diabetes, which account for up to 80% of total treatment costs for
these patients.

The foundation of the prosper programme is a health-care network
established by Knappschaft and composed of family doctors,
specialists and hospitals in a given region. The prosper Saar
health-care network consists of over 300 physicians, of whom 50 are
now participating in the interdisciplinary, cross- sector prosper
Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes programme.

The heart of prosper Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes consists of a
central, indication-based case file and an innovative diagnostic and
treatment path derived from data contained in the file - both
elements developed by CompuGROUP. All relevant information is entered
in the file by participating physicians. It includes comprehensive
treatment data on Type 2 diabetes patients as well as information
about identified risk patients. On the basis of this medical data,
the treatment path provides specific guideline-oriented
recommendations for treatment teams at the moment a medical decision
needs to be made. The diabetes mellitus path was developed by the
medical team at CompuGROUP in consultation with the renowned expert
Prof. Dr. Werner Scherbaum of Düsseldorf. "Our goal is to offer
doctors only those 'bits of information' they really need - at
precisely the right moment and integrated directly into the
physician's workflow", explains Frank Ladendorf, Managing Director of
GiV.

Prof. Dr. med. Werner Scherbaum, Director of the Endocrinology,
Diabetology and Rheumatology Clinic at the Düsseldorf University
Hospital, goes one step further: "The prosper Versorgungsmanagement
Diabetes programme responds to the repeatedly expressed appeal for a
practicable diagnostic and treatment system controlled primarily by
family physicians. Specialist treatment can be integrated without
difficulty. Making the best use of existing resources, developing
them through innovation and thus doing more for patients and their
health - these are the primary objectives of prosper
Versorgungsmanagement Diabetes."

Frank Ladendorf emphasizes the potential savings for health insurers:
"We are already seeing evidence that prosper Versorgungsmanagement
Diabetes enhances the efficiency of patient treatment while ensuring
quality and cost- effectiveness on a sustainable basis. Our software
makes a valuable contribution in that context. I'm sure", Ladendorf
adds, "that other health insurers will soon be using
intelligent-software-aided systems of this kind to increase
efficiency as well."

"We hope to find out", says Hans Adolf Müller, Health Management
Director at Knappschaft Bahn See, "whether this innovative
decision-support system will enable us to help our policyholders more
effectively and to provide more systematic support to treating
physicians and their teams." CompuGROUP has proven to be a strong
partner. As the market leader, CompuGROUP has broad, central access
to practising physicians thanks to the widespread use of its
physicians' information system.

According to Frank Ladendorf, "Treatment management systems of this
kind work only if they are accepted by physicians. We gain that
acceptance by integrating the system into existing workflows and by
ensuring complete transparency - with respect to prescriptions, for
example." The pilot project is scheduled to run until the end of
2009, after which it will be evaluated for the purpose of assessing
the practicability and the added benefits of this form of integrated
treatment. If the positive results shown thus far are confirmed, the
programme will be launched on a broad basis and expanded to include
other guideline- oriented patient paths for other widespread diseases
in 2010.

About CompuGROUP Holding AG CompuGROUP is one of the leading e-health
companies worldwide. Its software products, designed to support all
medical and organizational activities in doctors' offices and
hospitals, its information services for all parties involved in the
healthcare system and its web-based personal health records
contribute towards safer and more efficient healthcare. The services
of CompuGROUP are based on its unique customer base of around 326,000
doctors, dentists, hospitals and networks as well as other service
providers. CompuGROUP is the e-health company with the biggest
coverage among e-health service providers worldwide. The company
operates in 14 European countries, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa and in the USA and currently employs around 2,700 people.

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