St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, through the Central Norway Regional Health Authority, and Telenor are the main parties to the contract, with EDB acting as the supplier of the IT services included in the agreement.

 

Hospital provision in the Sør-Trøndelag area of Norway is the responsibility of St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim as the local health authority. The hospital is currently under construction, and work is underway in parallel with this to expand its IT systems. This has given rise to the need for the services and products in question. St. Olavs Hospital is strongly committed to making innovative use of IT to improve its treatment offer for patients and deliver greater operational efficiency for the hospital.

 

"Here at St. Olavs we are already running one of the world's most modern hospitals, and IT plays an important role in our day-to-day operations. We already have good experience of Telenor and EDB as suppliers, and the new agreement ensures that we will benefit from continuing stable and professional IT operations in future years", comments Trond Grimstad, Head of ICT at St. Olavs Hospital.

 

"Our collaboration with St. Olavs Hospital is very important for EDB, both strategically and in terms of market position. This contract will help us to develop greater expertise in delivery to the health sector. We believe that other hospitals stand to gain a great deal from improving the efficiency of their IT operations through outsourcing in the way that St. Olavs has demonstrated", comments Thorolf Thorstensen, acting EVP, IT Operations, EDB.

 

More about the services to be delivered
Under the terms of the contract, Telenor and EDB are responsible for central IT operations at the new University Hospital, including services such as IP telephony, alarm systems/signalling of AV traffic and authentication. These services are delivered through a common network and a central server park, with particular focus on creating forward-looking solutions for the hospital.

 

More about the contract
The agreement with Telenor and EDB, which also covers the medical faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, gives the suppliers responsibility for operating the new University Hospital's IT infrastructure until June 2012. The contract is between Telenor and St. Olavs Hospital, with EDB acting as the supplier of the IT services element of the agreement. The agreement represents total contract value in the order of NOK 160 million. Telenor and EDB entered into an agreement with St. Olavs Hospital, represented by the Central Norway Regional Health Authority, in 2006, and the new contract represents an extension and expansion of this agreement. The contract now includes both construction phase 1 and construction phase 2 of the new University Hospital.

 

For further information, please contact:
Geir Remman, EVP - Corporate Communications, EDB. Tel: +47 970 55 017
Rune Døssland, Program Director TEC, Telenor. Tel. +47 951 18 541  
Paul Gundersen, Head of Central Norway Regional Health Authority IT.

Tel. +47 930 59 577