Ergobyte Informatics S.A.

Company Profile

Ergobyte is a market-oriented eHealth SME operating since 2002 that produces high quality medical software solutions for desktop, server and mobile devices. Its portfolio of commercial products empowers health professionals by assisting them with clinical and pharmaceutical information at the point of care. Its growing customer base comprises healthcare providers, pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research.
Ergobyte's products are all offered as cloud services, exploiting a great number of advantages such as scalability, multiple service models, increased geographic reach, ease of deployment, low maintenance costs, etc. This technology choice poses a number of challenges related to data security and privacy. Over the last few years, Ergobyte implements, continuously monitors and tests end-to-end security policies and measures. Transmission, storage and processing of sensitive patient information is safeguarded in multiple ways, through anonymization, encryption and secure data transfer. In order to prevent malicious attempts to intercept or read data, the Zero Knowledge protocol is applied. It guarantees that no one but the user can read sensitive patient information.
Moreover, research and innovation are at the core of the company's corporate culture, ever since its foundation. In parallel to commercial activities, research is jointly conducted with institutes, universities and other stakeholders. A number of fields are explored:
● Computer-based medical diagnosis
● Health knowledge representation and Semantic Web technologies
● Anonymization of health records
● Machine learning and reasoning
● E-prescribing optimization
So far, Ergobyte has received four Horizon 2020 sub grants in the sectors of Health Economy 4.0, personalised medicine, open data and FI-PPP and participated in the preparation of 8 ICT proposals. Thanks to those activities, Ergobyte has a wide network of contacts in Europe.

Technology and R&D

Research and innovation are at the core of the company's corporate culture, ever since its foundation. In parallel to commercial activities, research is jointly conducted with institutes, universities and other stakeholders. A number of scientific fields are explored, namely:
- Computer-based medical diagnosis
- Health knowledge representation and Semantic Web technologies
- Anonymization of health records
- Machine learning and reasoning
- E-prescribing optimization