Digital Health Vital Signs

Digitization in the hospital

While SAP is planning to withdraw from the healthcare sector, the great ray of hope for the IT industry was and is the Hospital Future Act, which was passed even before the pandemic. This will have a huge impact on structures, IT and finances in the healthcare sector. The Lünendonk magazine "On the way to the digital hospital" offers a compact description and conclusions for the German healthcare market. It addresses digital infrastructures, the status quo of IT in healthcare and the benefits of digital health applications in a factual manner and with well-founded background research. For example, the market research company Lünendonk and Hossenfelder diagnoses that hospital IT is inadequately protected in its current form.

With numerous specialist articles, the reference work also addresses the actual costs of a secure IT environment and the need for well-trained IT professionals in healthcare. "Where are we actually on the road to the digital hospital?" asks Jörg Hossenfelder, Managing Partner at Lünendonk. "With a look at the current level of digitization and an in-depth diagnosis of all the inevitable hurdles in German hospitals, the guest authors as analysts present current industry figures, trends and considerations around the healthcare sector."