BMG’s digitization strategy – strengthening digitization enters the next round
The implementation of projects from the Hospital Futures Act (KHZG) is currently in full swing. The financial support for patient portals, cloud computing, digital medication management and digital documentation is intended to significantly increase the maturity of German hospitals by the end of 2024.
The German DRG system – a brief look back to the future.
At this year’s DRG Forum in Berlin, there was widespread agreement that the DRG system is in need of comprehensive reform. There is no shortage of sensible proposals, such as the introduction of cross-sectoral remuneration by means of hybrid DRGs or greater consideration of input costs in hospital financing.
Launch of DigitalRadar – surveying the level of digitization in German hospitals.
The DigitalRadar aims to provide hospitals with a tool to help them actively shape the digital future and compare themselves nationally and internationally.
Hospital Future Act – “digital update” for hospitals?
At the beginning of October 2021, the Bundesrat and Bundestag passed the Hospital Future Act. Its contents are intended to help the German hospital sector to eliminate deficits in the digital transformation. The most important contents of this are recorded in this article.
