PRESS RELEASE

The BCB Dexther mobile app is now free to download

The online medication database continues its digital roll-out

Boulogne-Billancourt, January 12, 2017 Cegedim Group subsidiary Resip, which publishes the BCB Dexther electronic database for medications and health products, announces that its mobile app is now free to download. Available for smartphones and tablets, this app is designed for individuals on the go who need access to the most vital information on more than 15,000 medications.

The Base Claude Bernard (BCB) medication database was the first to be certified by the French government's Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), and is used daily by half of all healthcare professionals via their business software. In its mobile app form, it has already been downloaded tens of thousands of times. Resip, its publisher, is now offering free downloads of the app on iOS, Android and Windows platforms for all healthcare professionals. This decision will spread its use even wider to give users access to practical, reliable information on health products. It will also cater to healthcare professionals' new ways of using technology and practicing medicine, and improve patients' level of care.

More mobile professionals, a more demanding public

At their practice and on the go, both medical and allied health professionals need easy access to vital data when treating patients, including indications, dosage, contraindications, and unwanted side-effects. The general public wants to know more about health matters and their own condition, and is also looking for easily accessible reference information on health products.

These are exactly what the BCB Dexther mobile app delivers. Its strengths are its:

  • Accuracy, the result of regular updates;
  • Completeness, with more than 15,000 medications and their dosage charts;
  • Advanced functions, such as the ability to create patient profiles and view contraindications and drug interactions.

Cegedim

137 rue d'Aguesseau, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

Tél. : +33 (0)1 49 09 22 00

www.cegedim.fr

SA au capital de 13 336 506,43 euros

SIREN 350 422 622

R. C. S. Nanterre B 350 422 622 Page 1

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE

BCB, gateway to a range of services

The industry reference in pharmacology, the BCB database comes in a variety of formats to meet different users' needs. The paid version is available as part of healthcare professionals' business software packages and in a full web version via www.bcbdexther.fr. It is designed to provide assistance and security for drug prescription and dispensing. The app version is available for smartphones and tablets. It can be downloaded for free, and has functions suited to all kinds of users, as well as additional functions just for healthcare professionals - who must enter their RPPS credentials - and BCB paid subscribers.

"Our unique expertise in medication security and our desire to always be adapting to the needs of healthcare professionals have led us to make the digital version of BCB more widely available, to ensure that up-to-date, relevant, comprehensive information is there for the caregivers who need it," emphasises Christophe Descamps, Director of Resip, the Cegedim Group subsidiary that publishes the Base Claude Bernard database.

To download the BCB Dexther mobile app: https://www.bcbdexther.fr/solutions-bcb-medecins.jsp#mobile

About RESIP:

RESIP supplies healthcare professionals with a scientific database for assistance in drug prescription and dispensing: the Base Claude Bernard (BCB) database. BCB was the first medication and health product database to be certified by the French government's Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS). It is included in business software packages used by healthcare professionals in pharmacies, medical practices, multidisciplinary health facilities, and other care establishments, such as hospitals, clinics and nursing homes. More than 100,000 healthcare professionals in France and around the world use the BCB daily. It is also available to the general public via websites and healthcare portals, as well as on Apple, Android and Windows smartphones and tablets.

For more information, please visit www.bcbdexther.fr

About Cegedim:

Founded in 1969, Cegedim is an innovative technology and services company in the field of digital data flow management for healthcare ecosystems and B2B, and a business software publisher for healthcare and insurance professionals. Cegedim employs more than 4,000 people in 11 countries and generated revenue of €426 million in 2015. Cegedim SA is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: CGM).

To learn more, please visit: www.cegedim.com

And follow Cegedim on Twitter: @CegedimGroup and LinkedIn

Aude Balleydier Cegedim Communications Manager and Media Relations

Tel.: +33 (0)1 49 09 68 81

aude.balleydier@cegedim.com

Guillaume de Chamisso PRPA Agency

Media Relations

Tel.: +33 (0)1 77 35 60 99

guillaume.dechamisso@prpa.fr

Follow Cegedim:

Page 2

Cegedim SA published this content on 12 January 2017 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein.
Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 12 January 2017 11:45:08 UTC.

Original documenthttp://www.cegedim.com/communique/Cegedim_Appli_BCBDexther_12012017_ENG.pdf

Public permalinkhttp://www.publicnow.com/view/D4B3D87DE062FBC1BA9FFF7DF90CFBC2BB52D18E