Petr Spinar, CEO, CSC Eastern Europe commented: "Jaroslav Kmet's appointment comes at a time when the market for healthcare IT services is booming. Healthcare systems in Eastern Europe are in great need of modernisation and governments understand that in order to provide better healthcare for patients, increase efficiency as well as save money, they need to invest in nationwide healthcare IT systems. With its expertise and proven track record, CSC is committed to delivering cost-effective and flexible solutions."

Eastern Europe is faced with increased demand for care services, given its growing ageing population and the increase in chronic diseases, coupled with a shortage of healthcare providers. Large-scale eHealth initiatives that include electronic health records, the planning and building of national data exchange solutions ePrescription services and information systems for hospitals, are a necessary component to the overall healthcare transformation required to address today's healthcare challenges in these countries.

"This is such an exciting time to join CSC" commented Jaroslav Kmet. "CSC integrated care suite of products is key to connected healthcare. It extends from ePrescribing and workflow solutions to clinical portals, which link up legacy IT systems to provide all relevant patient data in a single view. Eastern European governments and health agencies choosing CSC can be safe in the knowledge that we have already implemented such solutions in Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the UK. In all these countries we have been able to demonstrate positive results such as standardising processes and procedures, improving security and reliability and ultimately improving healthcare services and saving millions of Euros for governments."

For example, in Slovakia, CSC helped the Social Insurance Agency - responsible for collecting social insurance contributions, making benefit payments for sickness and injury insurance as well as managing unemployment benefits and pension payments - to solve the problems they had due to ineffective decentralised information systems. Whilst CSC has a lot of expertise in undertaking data migration and redesigning healthcare and financial information systems, they had to take into account local legislation and social behaviours which were quite unique to Slovakia.

"CSC, as a global company, has a wealth of expertise and know-how in the delivery of healthcare systems. However each country in Eastern and Central Europe is very different, with its own language, legislation and social attitudes," commented Kmet.

"This is why we will be recruiting healthcare specialists in various countries such as the Baltics, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Serbia, who have local knowledge and understanding of those specific markets to ensure that we can provide them with a true localised offering. This will make CSC's proposition in Eastern Europe very compelling," he concluded.

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About CSC Healthcare EMEA
CSC Healthcare EMEA is part of the CSC Global Healthcare Group, which serves both private and public sectors around the world. As a leading provider of interoperable, scalable IT healthcare solutions CSC is transforming healthcare with better information for better decisions.

Working with health ministries and healthcare providers across the region CSC Healthcare EMEA helps to drive reform and rise to the challenge of delivering a digitised health service. Spearheading the development of its product range is the CSC European Solution Centre which is complemented by CSC's global Innovation Centres.

Currently the EMEA group has healthcare operations in more than 11 countries, employing approximately 3,000 healthcare experts. As part of a global group it is supported by an extensive partner network and provides substantial experience of national healthcare markets.

About CSC
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. The company has been recognized as a leader in the industry, including being named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the World's Most Admired Companies for Information Technology Services (2010). Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2010. For more information, visit the company's website at www.csc.com.