MEDICA DEEP DIVE

The hospital of the future will be networked from top to bottom. Networking can not only save staff work by transferring data and examination results from devices and databases directly to the hospital information system. This eliminates the need for manual entries and administrative work.

At the same time, networking can improve the quality of treatment and increase patient safety, because it bypasses errors that occur during manual processes. It can further present all patient data in a clear, bundled form. This reduces the likelihood that information important for treatment will be overlooked.

But hospitals are also important parts of the infrastructure. There have already been attacks on hospital IT in the past that have temporarily halted patient care. Therefore, the security of networked systems against attacks from the outside must also always be considered.

In the MEDICA DEEP DIVE, we talk about what a networked hospital might look like: How do jobs change? What are the opportunities and risks? And how do hospitals get the right IT solution for them?