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New premises for healthcare IT firm

AMERICAN healthcare IT firm NaviNet is moving its Belfast operation to larger premises as it continues to grow.

The Boston-headquartered company is the United States' biggest healthcare network company, supporting complex private health insurance arrangements across every state. It set up in Belfast in 2009 and has had to move to a larger research and development centre located within the Northern Ireland Science Park after staff levels eclipsed 50. Mark Dudman from NaviNet said: "We have depended on our Belfast colleagues' technological expertise to deliver market-leading software products to the ever-evolving U.S. Healthcare market for the past five years," "We look forward to continuing to attract some of Northern Ireland's brightest and best to NaviNet as we increase our capability to rapidly develop and deploy mission-critical applications on the NaviNet network."

Enterprise, trade and investment minister Arlene Foster said the move was "a signal of the company's continued commitment" to the north. "Having now reached the significant milestone of having recruited its 50th employee, NaviNet's software development operation has now established firm roots in Belfast," she said.