Taipei, Sep. 7 (CNA) Cerrus International, Britain's biggest supplier of IT software to the social and healthcare sectors, aims to enter Taiwan market by the end of this year, Cerrus chief executive Stewart Maxwell said in Taipei Thursday.
Many leading healthcare associations in Europe are clients of Cerrus. In the United Kingdom alone, 20,000 people use the system, titled Saturn, every day across 2,000 sites, said Maxwell.
The social and healthcare sector is the fastest-growing industry in the world due to a global increase in the aging population and advances in medical science. With this increase brings economic, cultural and operational change in which IT plays an essential part in helping to manage this process, Maxwell said.
"The introduction of the Saturn software to Taiwan will lead to innovations in the local industry. One of our primary objectives for 2006 is to develop our unique application in readiness for a major international release -- the first of its kind anywhere in the world, " he said.
In Taiwan, there has been tremendous interest in the system. Cerrus is in discussions with local private and government agencies to produce a version of Saturn for the Taiwan social and healthcare market. It will launch the system for Taiwan at the Mediphar Exhibition in November.