Commercial exit in EPR project

For nearly ten years a project to facilitate patient record (EPR) access and improve lay persons understanding by automated explanation of medical terms has been running at the Intervention Centre. In 2009/10 the project with the working title the "Thesaurus Project" received funding from Innomed, a national competency network for user driven innovation in the health care sector. The Thesaurus application browser client application receives EPR text from DocuLive and maps medical terms with a set of dictionaries. One is "The Patient Handbook" from NHI, one is Medical Dictionary from Kunnskapsforlaget-both Norwegian Publishing companies. The third dictionary was made by clinical specialists at Oslo University Hospital. With help from the TTO Inven2 the application has now been sold to Kunnskapsforlaget, and will be prepared for further commercialization in the near futurre.