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CARTES & IDentification 2009 -- Hypercom Corporation (NYSE.
HYC) today announced that LVR InfoKom, the leading IT service provider for social organizations in Germany’s North Rhine region, has rolled out up to 230 medCompact e-Health terminals to support approximately 7,000 health care professionals at 10 hospitals serving annually more than 50,000 patients. The rollout is believed to be the largest of its type for Germany’s new e-Health card program.

"LVR’s rollout of Hypercom’s medCompact means that thousands of health care professionals at 10 major hospitals in the Rhineland region will be able to quickly and securely authenticate and process the new electronic health insurance cards,” said Ulf Hönick, Vice President Healthcare, Hypercom Corporation. “LVR’s decision to team with Hypercom is a

win-win for hospitals, health care professionals and patients.”

"With medCompact, we have created a solution that guarantees our clients convenience and cost-benefits and one that can be transferred with little effort to other health care service providers," stated Oliver Hoffmann, CEO of LVR InfoKom. "Patients using medCompact during its pilot phase specifically appreciated the terminals’ easy use, simple and intuitive operation, large display and user-friendly PIN Pad.”

The introduction of the electronic health card (eGK¹) required that the LVR InfoKom-operated system for the 10 hospitals integrate decentralized points of transaction, such as admission and doctor’s offices, into a centrally driven KIS architecture using terminal servers. With leading hospital information systems provider NEXUS, LVR ensured the system would process both the new electronic health cards and current health insurance cards. Workstation-connected health data was then routed to the central primary system, while the health card data processing was done at the terminal server farm. LVR InfoKom’s IT infrastructure facilitated the rapid integration of the new terminals into the existing Citrix landscape.

Germany’s e-Health card program is one of the largest IT projects worldwide with a planned deployment of more than 80 million electronic health insurance cards.

For additional information on Hypercom’s medCompact terminal and medline product family, please visit: www.medline.hypercom.com : .



About LVR InfoKom ( www.infokom.lvr.de : )

LVR InfoKom is the IT solution provider of Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Rhineland Regional Council), supplying modern IT services to the entire association as well as other clients. To ensure that the Landschaftsverband Rheinland can fulfill its mission, LVR InfoKom provides it with a high-performance IT system. To this end, the IT system company operates two fail-proof, high-security computing centers in Cologne (Germany), where all the important LVR processes are realized, maintained and developed. LVR InfoKom ensures that the central systems are permanently accessible to all employees over a data network and that the necessary software is available on the workstation PCs.


About Hypercom ( www.hypercom.com : )

Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits.
Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally.

1 eGK stands for elektronische Gesundheitskarte


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