COMPAREX and AuthentiDate Establish a Strategic Alliance
New, central convenience signatures with a health professional
card and an electronic health card
Düsseldorf, Mannheim – January 13, 2009
AuthentiDate, a signature specialist operating on an international basis, and COMPAREX, a company of TDMi AG, are establishing a strategic alliance and will combine the secure COMPAREX chip-card safe IQ-Medi-LOG with the leading AuthentiDate signature application components. The new joint solution will make a central generation of qualified signatures possible with the health professional card (HPC) and the electronic health card (eHC). This type of signature is also designated as a convenience signature in accordance with the technical guideline (BSI TR-03114) of the German Federal Office of Information Technology Security (BSI).
The solution appreciably simplifies the practical use of the health professional card because of the elimination of a card reader and signature software at every single workstation and thereby reduces the operating costs of the HPC in a substantial way. The procurement, administration and licensing costs that are saved in this way can be used in other areas in a much more efficient way for the patient.
The COMPAREX chip-card safe IQ-Medi-LOG can be set up in the central office of a hospital, for example. The physicians and other employees put their health professional card in the chip-card safe when they enter the building and activate the card once via entry of the PIN number. Depending on the configuration, qualified signatures (convenience signatures) can subsequently be created from every workstation. The secure, central AuthentiDate signature component provides for this. A display of the data before it is signed via the central AuthentiDate signature component and the central COMPAREX chip-card safe is ensured via the AuthentiDate Trusted Viewer at every workstation. Qualified time stamps from accredited services and others can also be requested as an option through the signature service layer.
The product arising from the joint project will make the daily routine in the clinic easier, especially for physicians, because electronically signed data can be generated almost anywhere without high additional expenses. Multi-stage or spatially separate approval processes can also be implemented in a simple way and without major changes in the work flow.
About TDMi/COMPAREX
The TDMi Group, with 36 branch offices across the nation, 1,300 employees and an overall sales volume of approx. 500 million euros, is one of the largest independent IT systems houses in Germany. The IT service providers and systems houses arxes NCC AG, becom Informationssysteme GmbH, COMPAREX Deutschland GmbH and inforsacom Informationssysteme GmbH joined together under the umbrella of TDMi in December of 2007. Around 1,200 companies are among the customers of TDMi.
About AuthentiDate International AG & AuthentiDate Deutschland GmbH
AuthentiDate (Düsseldorf) is the inventor of the centralized, qualified mass signature and one of the leading providers within the international signature market. The signature and IT-security specialist has been a pioneer for years and is influencing the signature market with its innovations.
More than 50% of the German health insurance companies and international companies and organizations, such as DPD, EnBw, HAYS, Klinikum Braunschweig, SOLVAY Chemicals und TÜV Rheinland have been using AuthentiDate signature products successfully for many years.
AuthentiDate technologies meet the strict requirements of the German Signature Law and the European Signature Directive. AuthentiDate International AG is accredited certification service provider by the Federal Network Agency and runs a Trust Center in compliance with the German Signature Law.
COMPAREX Deutschland GmbH (a TDMi AG company)
Besselstr. 2-4
68219 Mannheim
Fon +49 (0)221 – 96 486 174
Felicia Effertz (PR contact)
Email felicia.effertz(at)tdmi.com
www.tdmi.com
www.comparex.de
AuthentiDate International AG
Rethelstraße 47
40237 Düsseldorf
Fon +49 (0)211 43 69 89-50
Fax +49 (0)211 43 69 89-19
Judith Balfanz
VP Marketing
Email presse(at)authentidate.de
www.authentidate.de
