Rotterdam’s KPN acquires Utrecht’s Itzos to strengthen digital healthcare division

Rotterdam-based KPN, a telecommunications and IT provider, announced on Tuesday, January 3, that it has acquired integration and data management company Itzos to strengthen its digital healthcare division, KPN Health Exchange. 

KPN did not disclose the financial details of the deal. 

According to KPN, the acquisition was built upon existing collaborations to develop its digital health services further and focus on making data more accessible to its customers.

With this acquisition, the Rotterdam-based company plans to create a single platform where every Dutch person will soon be able to view their medical data, including insight into the file of various healthcare providers such as the hospital, general practitioner, physiotherapist, or care for the elderly.

Further, patients can also add self-measured health data, such as from a pedometer or a blood pressure monitor.

“By enabling data sharing, a collaboration between healthcare institutions becomes easier, and healthcare information becomes digitally available and usable. This results in the best patient/client and care experience,” states KPN. 

Itzos: What you need to know

Based out of Vianen, Utrecht, Itzos is a healthcare integration and data management solutions provider in the Netherlands. Post-acquisition, Itzos will operate as an independent company within KPN Health and its current management will remain in place.

Mark van Dijk, director of Itzos, says, “For the best patient/client and care experience, collaboration and adequate sharing of data are necessary, as all disciplines within the healthcare sector are aware of this. Our solutions for integrating and exchanging data have already proven themselves in healthcare, from hospitals to laboratories and institutions for elderly care to mental health care. KPN has the technological expertise and industry-leading infrastructure to increase the scalability of our solutions to meet the growing market demand for data exchange services. With this acquisition, KPN Health offers us a future-proof basis for the further development and operational management of our services.”

KPN Health Exchange: What you need to know

KPN Health Exchange is a KPN service that supports healthcare institutions with data infrastructure to make healthcare information accessible to patients, healthcare professionals, and eHealth applications in a secure and standardised manner. 

Vinood Mangroelal, director of KPN Health, says, “Access to healthcare data plays an important role in keeping healthcare accessible and future-proof. With the KPN Health Exchange, we facilitate this data exchange in a secure and standardised manner. KPN and Itzos have been working on the KPN Health Exchange for some time, with Itzos mainly focusing on data management and integration. With the additional expertise and solutions of Itzos, we enrich our KPN Health Exchange services and accelerate the movement toward standardised and scalable platforms. Together with Itzos, we see opportunities to respond even better to the increasing demand from the market for digital data exchange that contributes to the further digitisation of healthcare.”