Networked systems instead of isolated solutions

At the same time, it considers it important for hospitals to remain compatible. It sees it as the DKG's task to anticipate European requirements and prepare hospitals for them.

Precise questions, short answers: this was the concept of the bvitg eHealth-Hotseat, where Prof. Dr. Henriette Neumeyer took a seat at DMEA. She is the Deputy Chairwoman of the German Hospital Federation (DKG) and is responsible for the "Hospital Personnel and Policy" division. bvitg Managing Director Melanie Wendling wanted to know from her: Have hospitals slept through digitalization

In an introductory keynote speech, Henriette Neumeyer admitted that, on the one hand, she sees a high level of digitalization in hospitals, but that, on the other hand, isolated solutions often still exist. The reason for this is that not enough attention has been paid for a long time to how hospitals can be connected.

She sees the electronic patient file (ePA) as a beacon of hope. However, the current test run in the clinics shows that suitable software is still lacking in many places. A higher level of maturity is needed. Henriette Neumeyer considers it important that the ePA is rolled out further, especially in view of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). It will force the German healthcare system to be interoperable in a completely different way than it is today. Structured data is the goal in order to achieve both patient management and the reorganization of processes. However, she also sees resilience and crisis resistance, for example through cyber security, as important issues that hospitals are best tackling together. This requires the decentralized facilities to be networked, e.g. via hubs.