Joint venture between ICT Embedded BV and Forcare BV
03/14/2007
ICT Embedded BV (ICT) and Forcare BV (Forcare) have decided to enter into a strategic joint venture. As a strategic partner, ICT will supply knowledge and software professionals to Forcare for the (joint) development of new healthcare connectivity products. It is expected that the joint venture agreement will be finalised in April.
Gert-Jan van Dijk, business development manager Products at ICT: “The intended joint venture with Forcare will lead to a broadening of our current business portfolio with products in the Healthcare sector, which is a strategic market sector for us. With Forcare’s innovative products and domain knowledge in the field of interoperability between Heathcare IT systems, we can see excellent opportunities for entering new markets and becoming more successful together. Our joint contribution to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) offers our clients compliancy with the standardisation that is essential to the market.”
Harm Jan Wessels, director of Forcare: “The future joint venture with ICT will enable us to develop and market our XDS connectivity products faster. “Together with ICT, we will test our product suite at the next IHE Connectathon in April in Berlin. We are convinced that the joint venture will be successful because ICT is clearly opting to invest in knowledge and expertise in the Healthcare sector. In ICT, we have found a partner of stature, together with whom we can jointly provide our clients with added value.”