Inter Access also signs eight-year maintenance contract
Hilversum, Amsterdam, 25 September 2008 – After a European tender the Municipality of Amsterdam has selected Inter Access as the supplier for the new Matchpoint Youth and Care system for the provision of youth care in the Amsterdam municipal region. Inter Access will also be maintaining the system, which is based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), for the next eight years.
With the new system the Municipality of Amsterdam aims to improve the collaboration in the youth care in the region through a better exchange of information and collaboration between the various agencies involved in youth care and young people. All these organisations have their own objectives and methods, and use different systems to register information about their clients. In order to ensure that these methods and registration systems interact properly, the municipality is having the Matchpoint system developed by Inter Access. Other municipalities in the Amsterdam Municipal region are also likely to use this system in the future.
The domains of youth care, youth healthcare, education, welfare, safety and work and income are involved in Matchpoint Youth and Care. The ultimate objective is improved coordination of the education and youth (health) care provision for children and young people aged 0 to 23. This is achieved by supporting process agreements with a feature in which care referrals are brought together, and that documents which child or which young person is known to which agency.
As the basis for the feature in the Amsterdam region, Inter Access uses its Zorg voor jeugd (Care for Youth) SOA application, which is currently used by more than 60 municipalities in the Netherlands. The Inter Access Zorg voor jeugd application is an Internet application to which local assistance agencies are connected so they know that they are dealing with the same child/family. They can inform each other about their activities in real time. The system includes functions like registration of children/young people in the chain, registration of care referrals, the allocation of codes to referrals, automatic message exchange (e-mail), automatic care coordination, the documentation of agreements, progress monitoring of agreements, reports and links between the systems of the agencies and the Municipal Personal Data Administration (GBA).
“The Inter Access solution corresponds well with the requirements and preferences of the municipality of Amsterdam and the youth and care institutions”, says a spokesperson for the municipality of Amsterdam, project group Matchpoint. “Inter Access brings a lot of knowledge and experience to the table with regard to the introduction of a similar referral index and linking into developments such as the National Referral Index and the Electronic Child Dossier.”
“We are very pleased that Amsterdam has chosen our Zorg voor jeugd solution”, comments Michel de Meijer, General Manager at Inter Access. “This contract underlines our special expertise in the area of government solutions and healthcare in particular. Our Zorg voor jeugd solution, which was developed some years ago in close collaboration with the Municipality of Helmond, has already more than proven itself in practice. As a result of this agreement we are substantially expanding the group of users, which also stimulates further development of the solution.”
Lammers van Toorenburg Benelux PR Anja BreunisPhone: +31 (0)30 656 50 70E-mail: interaccess@lvtpr.nl
Inter Access B.V.Lindy DragstraPhone: +31 (0)35 688 84 54E-mail: lindy.dragstra@interaccess.nl