Deutsche Telekom $DTE (-0.22%) is further expanding its strong position in the healthcare sector. The Group is taking over the IT specialist for medical data management "synedra" from Austria.
The founding team and its more than 80 employees will become part of the Deutsche Telekom family as part of the takeover. The companies did not disclose the purchase price.
Digitalization in the healthcare sector is progressing steadily. More and more clinics are networking and exchanging medical data with each other or with specialists. Every contact with a doctor, every examination and every laboratory result generates data. Radiological image data, videos and genome data in particular contribute to hospitals producing up to several terabytes of data every day.
The Health Content Management (HCM) platform from synedra brings light into this data jungle and ensures secure archiving, ordering and exchange of medical data. With this acquisition, Deutsche Telekom is expanding its portfolio to include synedra's HCM solutions and akedis Innovations' documentation solutions.
》Sovereign AI platform for hospitals in Europe《
The healthcare IT market is a key sector for Deutsche Telekom. The company is the manufacturer of the hospital information system (HIS) "iMedOne" and one of the five largest providers in Germany with 200 customers and over 100,000 users. With HealthID, which also forms the basis for the electronic patient file (ePA), the company also reaches around 35 million people with health insurance. As an HIS manufacturer, Deutsche Telekom already offers a specially certified sovereign cloud platform and has been working with synedra on a basis of trust for several years.
The acquisition not only expands Deutsche Telekom's portfolio of data platforms and interoperability solutions. The companies also complement each other well regionally. Synedra is headquartered in Austria, has subsidiaries in Germany and Switzerland and supports more than 260 clinics.