The digital hospital: integration and digitization
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Topic of the Month October 2020

The digital hospital: integration and digitization

Whether it's process automation, robotics in the OR and nursing areas, or the digitalization of patient records - in a smart hospital, everything comes together to form a connected hospital. Find out exactly how the Smart Hospital is being developed with the help of information platforms and projects in the Topic of the Month.

Smart Hospital: Digitally Connected Healthcare
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Every year, new technologies hit the market. They expand, update, and connect hospitals and healthcare facilities. But advancing digitization not only accelerates the speed of improvements, it also uncovers problem areas that must still be fixed.
Read the article about smart hospital here

ConnectedCare: hospital roadmap to becoming a Smart Hospital
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Scheduling, bed management, and menu ordering – today’s hospitals take advantage of a variety of digital services. In the worst-case scenario, each service requires a different interface to the central information system, marking a major barrier that holds back digitization. With ConnectedCare, BEWATEC shows there is a better way.
Read the interview with Philipp Schmelter here

The digitization of hospitals requires necessary investments
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The coronavirus pandemic has shown us we can make swift changes and handle problems if we set our minds to it, especially thanks to tools of digitization. Hospitals in Germany can expect to see a boost in digital transformation because the Federal Government adopted the "Program to Future-Proof Hospitals" (Zukunftsprogramm Krankenhäuser) in June to definitively address the investment backlog in German clinical facilities.
Read the interview with Georg Baum

Video

Staff communication via app – Rescue Center uses smart way of information

Staying in touch with your staff always, everywhere: The Malteser Hilfsdienst (a relief organization in the healthcare sector) in Mainz, Germany, use an app to keep their staff up to date. Learn more about the advantages of the app, especially for shift duty and the healthcare sector, how the app IK-up! works and how employees can contribute to topics in our video interview with Justin Weisang from the Malteser Hilfsdienst Mainz and Manuel Conrad from apicodo GmbH.

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