News and Events
March 27-29, 2012
Visit Forcare at the Zorg&ICT exhibition (booth #01.C045)
February 20-24, 2012
Visit Forcare at the HIMSS in Las Vegas (booth #3873)
January 9-14, 2012
Forcare present at North-American Connectathon (Chicago)
October 12, 2011
Forcare receives Eurostars innovation grant (dutch press release)
October 3, 2011, Forcare finalist in Skill City business competition
Forcare ranks 2nd in the 2011 IT business competition, organized by the Skill City network for the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, with 903% growth in revenue from 2006 to 2010. More details in the (Dutch) press release from Skill City.
Recent News and Events
September 21, 2011, Swiss eHealth Congress
Andries Hamster presents "Solving the challenges of clinical information exchange with IHE"
May 10-12, 2011, WoHIT
Visit us at the World of Health IT in Budapest, Hungary (stand #321). Forcare will participate in the IHE Interoperability Showcase and take part in the vendor panel session on Wednesday May 11. More details can be found on the WoHIT website.
April 5-7, 2011, ConHIT Germany
Visit us at the eHealth Holland Lounge (Hall 1.2/A-108).
Zorg & ICT 2011, The Netherlands
Please visit our booth (#D029) at Zorg&ICT in Utrecht. Find out more.
HIMSS 2011, United States
Please visit our booth (#4186) at HIMSS in Orlando. Forcare will also be present at the IHE Interoperability Showcase.
February, 2011
Forcare's XDS-based software has been validated as a key part of IBM's Healthcare Integration Framework, providing a comprehensive solution for state-of-the-art, open standards-based health information exchanges. In addition, Forcare is now an IBM ISV partner in IBM's PartnerWorld program supporting IBM software and hardware platforms like DB2 and WebSphere.
January, 2011
Forcare and McKesson sign world-wide distribution agreement. As part of the agreement Forcare will provide its XDS product suite for the Irish NIMIS project.
January 21st, 2011
Forcare successfully validates its products at North-American IHE Connectathon.
December 8 2010, Netherlands
Forcare's CTO Mark Sinke will present at the PACS and Radiology congres.
November 27, 2010
Forcare signs global reseller agreement with Agfa Healthcare (english press release).
November 27 2010, United States
Forcare will be present at the RSNA in Chicago.
November 1-2 2010, The Netherlands
Forcare will participate in the Dutch eRadiology connectathon.
November 8-9 2010, Biringham (UK)
Forcare will be present at the EHealth Insider Interoperability Showcase.
June 2010, Geneva Switserland
Mr. Maarten Festen (Forcare B.V.) will present a paper at the EuroPACS meeting at CARS titled "Using IHE XDS-I for referring cardiac patients improves quality of care while reducing costs".
April 2010, Netherlands
IHE Europe published a new IHE Success Story, showing multi-vendor interoperability in a regional health information exchange, hosted by Forcare. Read more on the IHE Europe website or take a look at the IHE Success Story.
March 30 - April 1st, 2010 - Utrecht, Netherlands
Forcare was present at the Dutch annual healthcare IT exhibition, Zorg & ICT on booth B036. Forcare was also part of the show-wide IHE interoperability demonstration organized by IHE Netherlands.
April 12 - April 16, 2010 - Bordeaux, France
Forcare was present at the European IHE Connectathon to validate new and existing IHE profiles. See our press release on the results.
March 1st - March 4th, 2010 - Atlanta, USA
Forcare was present at the annual HIMSS conference. Please visit us at booth 809. Read more.
November 29 - December 3, 2009 - Chicago, USA
Forcare was present at RSNA at the Acuo Technologies booth 9131 (Hall B) where we presented our solutions. Forcare also particpated in the IHE interoperability demonstration at booth 2843 (Hall A).
December 9, 2009 - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Meet Forcare at the PACS 2.0 congress.
November 9-10, 2009 - Birmingham, UK
Forcare participated in the IHE interoperability demonstration at the E-Health Insider event.
November 6, 2009 - Bussum, Netherlands
Forcare was present at the IHE Netherlands annual congress.
October 23, 2009 - London, UK
Forcare CEO Harm-Jan Wessels presented on "real-world" XDS projects and experiences at the UK PACS &Teleradiology User Group meeting.
September 2009
Forcare partner E.Novation signs contract with the Academic Hospital of Rotterdam (Erasmus MC), the Albert Schweitzer Hospital (Dordrecht) and the Rijnmondnet foundation to provide IHE-XDS healthcare information exchange.
August 2009
Forcare signs agreement with the Medical Center Leeuwarden to extend the XDS-based healthcare information exchange to share nuclear medicine images.
June 8-10, 2009 - Manchester, UK
Forcare was present at the UKRC.
May 2009
Forcare and the University Hospital Leuven sign a contract to build and provide an IHE XDS-based healthcare information exchange for the Flemish Hospital Network in Belgium.
April 2009 - Vienna, Austria
Forcare earned a record 35 gold stars at IHE Connectathon for the IHE XDS product suite.
March 18-20, 2009 - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Forcare was present at the Dutch annual healthcare IT exhibition, Zorg & ICT in Utrecht.
March 2009
Forcare signs up Philips Healthcare as international distribution partner.