EGK
Card processor TeleCash GmbH & Co. KG, and GroBbecker & Nordt
BUrotechnik Handels GmbH, an IT services provider to surgeries and
dental practices, have delivered and
installed more than 500 electronic health insurance card (eGK)
readers at dental practices in the North Rhine region during the last
quarter of 2009. The rollout of the Electronic Health Card (eGK) in Germany is one of the
biggest technology projects ever undertaken in the German healthcare
sector and will affect thousands of doctors, dentists, pharmacists and
healthcare clinics, which will have to invest in new card acceptance
devices. TeleCash has equipped doctors, pharmacists and hospitals with
card payment terminals since 1990 and, supported by a nationwide
infrastructure, offers a range of solutions specifically designed to
meet the needs of customers impacted by the launch of the eGK.
TeleCash chose Hypercom terminals to equip the practices. GroBbecker &
Nordt, which supports around 1,000 dental surgeons running CompuDent
surgery software in Cologne, Bonn and DUsseldorf, installed the readers
and integrated them into practices’ legacy administration systems.