Deputy General Manager
Tepe Technology & CorTTex
Member of the Board, Turkish Medical Informatics Association
Turkey

Profile: Mr Bulent Kunac holds MSc and BSc degrees in computer engineering. He is the Vice President of Tepe International; a joint company of CompuGROUP AG and Bilkent Holding. CompuGROUP AG is the leading e-Health company in Europe serving around 300,000 physicians, dentists, specialists via its 40+ companies and 1,700 employees, where Bilkent Holding is among the largest holdings in Turkey having $3+ Billion annual turnover, 22,000 employees.

Tepe International provides e-Health solutions including specialized Clinical Information Systems (CIS) and scalable Integrated Hospital Information Management Systems (IHIMS) to "healthcare providers" from clinics to chains of hospitals, as well as to "healthcare payers" including government institutions (MoH) and insurance companies nationwide solutions varying from electronic claims processing, e-invoicing, e-prescription, medical supply chain management, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), national databanks and many other e-Health components via and interoperable with its novel process-oriented and workflow based e-Health solutions platform: "corTTex ".

corTTex has been serving to King Fahad Medical City (KFMC), largest medical complex in the Middle East, more than 2 years. King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), a very well-known and 25 years JCI accredited hospital, has also chosen corTTex for its current and future HIT needs. Tepe International is bringing its products and services to the region via its partner Saudi Business Machines (SBM).

Mr Kunac has been active in the field of medical informatics for 17+ years; is a member of the board of TurkMIA (Turkish Medical Informatics Association www.turkmia.org) , and among the founders and chairman of HL7 Turkey (www.hl7.org) .