HTEC and DNV Imatis Extend Partnership to Modernize Backend Architecture and Scale e-health Solution Across Europe

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2025--

HTEC, a global AI-first tech company driving digital transformation across industries, today announced the extension of its partnership with DNV Imatis, a Norwegian pioneer in digital hospital logistics and a DNV Group company. HTEC is working on modernizing the DNV Imatis platform, with the focus on backend architecture to improve scalability, strengthen security, and help the company unlock new opportunities in key European markets. The contract extension also introduces new AI initiatives that will enable two companies to explore product enhancements through AI-powered solutions.

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DNV Imatis utilize HTEC’s expertise in system architecture to guide critical backend improvements and deliver modernization for a large and complex platform composed of multiple interconnected services. As part of this effort, HTEC is focused on improving the platform’s deployment process, enhancing security and performance, and standardizing data models and APIs. These changes enable DNV Imatis’ product teams to focus on what matters most — developing new features, building integrations, and continuously enhancing core functionalities and user experience.

“HTEC has been a valuable strategic partner in helping us improve the foundations of our platform,” said Espen Semb, Vice President R&D at Imatis DNV. “This work is enabling us to scale faster and deliver even more meaningful solutions in the hospital logistics where real-time task management and system reliability are essential.”

DNV Imatis can support multiple hospitals efficiently and deliver robust and secure digital health solutions that improve hospital operations across Europe.

“We’re proud to support DNV Imatis’ mission of transforming hospital operations,” said Milos Galic, Engineering & Delivery Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences. “By combining robust system architecture with a clear product vision, we’re helping them lay the groundwork for sustained innovation and growth.”

About HTEC

HTEC Group Inc. is a global AI-first provider of strategic, software and hardware embedded design and engineering services, specializing in Advanced Technologies, Financial Services, MedTech, Automotive, Telco, and Enterprise Software & Platforms. HTEC has a proven track record of helping Fortune 500 and hyper-growth companies solve complex engineering challenges, drive efficiency, reduce risks, and accelerate time to market. HTEC prides itself on attracting top talent and has strategically chosen the locations of its 20+ excellence centers to enable this.

About DNV Imatis

DNV Imatis is a Norwegian software company with over 30 years of experience in supporting efficient healthcare operations through digital tools. The company holds 80% of the Norwegian hospital market and serves customers in eight countries across three continents. Its vendor-neutral and scalable platform is designed to improve operational efficiency in healthcare, adapting to existing, new and evolving workflows. DNV Imatis offers a flexible ecosystem of lightweight applications and low-code tools that support, rather than constrain, healthcare operations. The company’s solutions integrate seamlessly with existing hospital systems, providing real-time data to automate and optimise mobile communication, clinical workflows, logistics, alarms, tasks, bed and resource management, patient pathways and command centre operations.

HTEC and DNV Imatis extend partnership to modernize backend architecture and scale e-health solution across Europe

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet.

Maine is home to a few thousand of the distinctive black-and-white waterbirds — the East Coast’s largest loon population — and conservationists said efforts to protect them from threats helped grow the population. An annual count of common loons found more adults and chicks this year than last, Maine Audubon said this week.

The group said it estimated a population for the southern half of Maine of 3,174 adult loons and 568 chicks. Audubon bases its count on the southern portion of Maine because there are enough bird counters to get a reliable number. The count is more than twice the number when they started counting in 1983, and the count of adults has increased 13% from 10 years ago.

“We’re cautiously optimistic after seeing two years of growing chick numbers,” said Maine Audubon wildlife ecologist Tracy Hart. “But it will take several more years before we know if that is a real upward trend, or just two really good years.”

Maine lawmakers have attempted to grow the population of the loons with bans on lead fishing tackle that the birds sometimes accidentally swallow. Laws that limit boat speeds have also helped because they prevent boat wakes from washing out nests, conservation groups say.

It's still too early to know if Maine's loons are on a sustainable path to recovery, and the success of the state's breeding loons is critical to the population at large, Hart said. Maine has thousands more loons than the other New England states, with the other five states combining for about 1,000 adults. The state is home to one of the largest populations of loons in the U.S., which has about 27,000 breeding adults in total.

Minnesota has the most loons in the lower 48 states, with a fairly stable population of about 12,000 adults, but they are in decline in some parts of their range.

While loons are not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, they are considered threatened by some states, including New Hampshire and Michigan. The U.S. Forest Service also considers the common loon a sensitive species.

The birds migrate to the ocean in late fall and need a long runway to take off, meaning winter can be a treacherous time for the birds because they get trapped by ice in the lakes and ponds where they breed, said Barb Haney, executive director of Avian Haven, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Freedom, Maine.

“We're getting a lot of calls about loons that are iced in,” Haney said, adding that the center was tending to one such patient this week.

A rescued loon's frostbitten foot is bandaged at Avian Haven, a bird rehabilitation clinic, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Freedom, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Athena Furr, left, a rehabilitation technician, examines a rescued loon with assistance from Toby Verville, center, and Katie Daggett at Avian Haven, a bird rehabilitation clinic, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Freedom, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A rescued loon is held by medical staff during an examination at Avian Haven, a bird rehabilitation clinic, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Freedom, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

FILE-A common loon chick hitches a ride on its mother's back on Maranacook Lake, in Winthrop, Maine, in this July 20, 2021, file photo. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)