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GenKey buys Ghana’s digital health records specialist ClaimSync

Biometric ID management solution specialist GenKey has bought Ghanaian software provider ClaimSync. The move gives the Dutch firm a stronger foothold in Africa’s burgeoning digital health market, with ClaimSync offering hospitals and insurers a next generation platform for digitising and processing medical records and claims. “We will be able to combine GenKey’s biometric ID management and unique biometric claim validation solution with ClaimSync’s electronic medical claim handling system”, says Mich
October 29, 2013 Read time: 1 min
Biometric ID management solution specialist GenKey has bought Ghanaian software provider ClaimSync.

The move gives the Dutch firm a stronger foothold in Africa’s burgeoning digital health market, with ClaimSync offering hospitals and insurers a next generation platform for digitising and processing medical records and claims.

“We will be able to combine GenKey’s biometric ID management and unique biometric claim validation solution with ClaimSync’s electronic medical claim handling system”, says Michiel van der Veen, CEO of GenKey.

ClaimSync, which will be operating from the international GenKey office in Accra, Ghana, says the deal will be the springboard for more activity throughout the continent. “Together, we can offer holistic, end-to-end solutions to our clients that will enable them to become more efficient in processing patient records and claims, as well as to eliminate claims fraud,” says Seth Akumani, CEO of ClaimSync.
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