Klinik Management has just interviewed Gerrit Schick as Head of Health Informatics at Philips GmbH Market DACH to find out how the new Hospital Futures Act (KHZG) will have a lasting and holistic impact on digitization in the hospital landscape by 2025.
Gerrit Schick is certain that all players in the healthcare system will benefit from the Hospital Futures Act, but especially the patients. However, the Corona pandemic has also shown that there are gaps to be filled in the digitization process, as speed and agility, in particular, are lacking. Therefore, a quick adaptation of the requirements as the basis of value-oriented care is necessary, which can be achieved with the KHZG as an accelerator of digitization.
Schick cautions, however, that while funds are available to expand the IT infrastructure, strategies are not necessarily available, and some hospitals would first have to develop them. Time is pressing because clinical documentation, telemedical care solutions, and patient management have priority.
Philips offers all clinical providers the expertise they need in systems, solutions, and platforms for digital advancement, including through acquisitions of other companies, such as Capsule Technologies, that specialize in clinical patient management. BioTelemetry as an acquisition for remote monitoring (remote monitoring of IT systems through software) of cardiac patients is another example of companies brought in.
In addition, the expert explains that interoperability and compatibility are two important factors to ensure that everything works properly, regardless of the manufacturer, with the help of international standards. IT security is also a prerequisite for a perfect holistic concept within the framework of clinical IT infrastructure, which is monitored and controlled by the Philips cybersecurity service team.
This also includes cloud-based applications for clinics, which are particularly practical and inexpensive because this factor also increases the quality of care. „Cloud computing“ is needed in administration, for other uses, and, above all, in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the processing of huge amounts of data.
Gerrit Schick is convinced that digitization is important in all areas of hospital care so that patients can receive better and more precise diagnoses and revised treatment options in the future. The targeted treatment outcome can be aligned with costs, the patient benefit is increased, and the effects of individual therapy decisions are visible and measurable.
Source: www.kma-online.de