Cambio Research Lab @ UCSC
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Göran Persson Chairman, Cambio Healthcare Systems opening
the lab |
The Board Members of the Cambio Healthcare Systems AB led by the
Chairman of the board Göran Persson visited the University of Colombo
School of Computing (UCSC) to ceremonially open the Cambio Research Lab
of the UCSC on the March 25, 2013. Cambio Healthcare Systems AB formally
handed over 40 Computers to the UCSC. Chairman of the Cambio Healthcare
Systems, Göran Persson is a former Prime Minister of Sweden (1996 -
2006) and other board members included CEO Tomas Mora-Morrison, CFO
Niklas Berglund and Chief of Software Engineering Göran Skold. Dr. Sunil
Jayantha Nawarathna, Secretary Ministry of Higher Education and Prof.
Kshinika Hirimburegama, Chairperson, University Grants Commission also
graced the occasion.
Cambio Healthcare Systems is one of the largest companies in Sweden
in the field of healthcare administration systems and a leading player
within the European market, with about 95,000 users in general and
university hospitals, primary care clinics and specialist units. They
have a staff of about 300 employees, who work in their offices in
Linköping & Stockholm, Sweden; Reading, UK and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
After evaluating many countries, Cambio selected Sri Lanka as the
place to house the Software Engineering division based on many factors
such as availability of skilled IT staff and cost of operations. Today
they have over 200 Employees in Sri Lanka of which over 25% of the staff
is from the University of Colombo School of Computing.
As such it is considered a great honor to gift the Cambio Research
Lab to the UCSC as the most significant human resource contributor of
the IT industry in Sri Lanka and thereto provide the students an
opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge enabling to them have
successful careers in the IT industry.
Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake referring to many Swedish funded projects
at the UCSC, thanked Cambio Healthcare Systems for setting up the lab to
further strengthen research. Two recent award winning research projects
of the UCSC were presented to the gathering. |
