The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic is a driver of the digital transformation, which is why experts of the reform commission of the Münch Foundation are calling for the realization of three new job profiles that are intended to promote sustainability in the digitization process of the healthcare system so that efficiency and relief for people working in the healthcare system lead to an improvement in care that can still be financed. The commission, consisting of Sebastian Kuhn, a physician at the University Medical Center Mainz, Franz Bartmann, a former member of the board of the German Medical Association, Bernadette Klapper, expert of the Robert Bosch Foundation and Uwe Schwenk of the Bertelsmann Foundation, is, therefore, considering not only professorships for the digital transformation but also three job profiles that bring all the advantages listed above to relieve the system: A „digital health professional“, job description number one, could implement analogue and digital technologies in her everyday work. Routine care of patients paired with digital technologies helps to act as a link between patient, professionals and technological applications in the form of health data maintenance and e-patient records. In the opinion of the Commission’s experts, the basis of knowledge is medical-nursing and technical know-how. The Foundation relies on communication skills for the „process manager for digital health“, which arise from the fact that he or she must develop medical and nursing processes that can be improved by digital health technologies and their application. The process manager’s job description must communicate with many professional groups because of the implementation and maintenance of innovative care processes with quality assurance. The „systems architect for digital health“ as the third new professional group provides the guidelines in the process of digital transformation because the professional activity combines medical and technological know-how as well as strategy and communication. According to the Commission, he or she should be responsible for ensuring that data standards are adhered to and that synergy potentials are developed. He or she also coordinates a large number of individual processes and has a great deal of responsibility.
