TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Maccabi Healthcare Services, a leading Israeli HMO, has announced that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology system for Bulgaria, which is expected to serve eight million people when fully implemented.
Maccabi won the opportunity to be a key player in a consortium to build the €3.5 million Bulgarian healthcare system over such well-known global IT firms as HP, IBM and Oracle, said Wendy Simmons, Maccabi spokesperson.
The World Bank will fund the project, she said.
“We are a healthcare supplier, not a technology company, which gives us profound insight into the needs of HMOs,” said Ofer Carmel, CEO of Maccabi Group Holdings. “The system we created is the healthcare delivery backbone for almost two million people in Israel, whose healthcare expenditure, according to the World Health Organization, is only two-thirds as much per capita as countries like Sweden and France and one-third that of the United States.”
Maccabi’s Health Value Added (HVA) Patient Care Knowledge Base allows HMOs to access patient records in real-time, measure quality of care, improve budgets and monitor member satisfaction by recording, analyzing and making accessible all patient medical data, including all patient-HMO interactions, Simmons said. She said Maccabi currently manages some 30 million patient-HMO transactions a year for its 1.7 million members.