Tag: Healthcare

One look is enough: The Practice Management Monitor

What it’s all about

A medical monitor measures and monitors various vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation in the blood and respiratory rate. This data provides doctors and medical staff in inpatient settings with important information about the patient’s health status so that they can then take appropriate action. Such monitors also alert when the measured values are outside the normal range to indicate potential problems. Such a monitor also exists in a figurative sense for practice management.

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The booster for practice management: Digital anamnesis

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The variety of possibilities offered by digitisation of practice work only becomes apparent to GPs and specialists when they look beyond the “end of their nose” of the TI. For example, a digital medical history can significantly improve efficiency and productivity in medical practices.

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Competence development of general practitioners and specialists: Digital know-how alone is not enough

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

When it comes to discussing the competences that will be relevant in the future, the topic of digital know-how is almost exclusively cited. This is indeed true, because there are clear deficits here. But another topic is much more important.

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Outpatient medicine: Precision versus gut feeling

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

When it comes to the medical care of patients in medical practices, the focus is on precision. Here, measurements are carefully recorded and analysed to ensure the most accurate diagnosis and treatment possible. But when it comes to assessing the quality of practice management, assumptions and gut feelings dominate. This leads to glaringly wrong decisions, which could be avoided if practice owners used the laboratory values of their practice management.

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Digitisation of outpatient medicine: The mainstream is misleading

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

Digitisation in the outpatient sector continues to be slow, mainly due to a limiting definition on the physician side. Medical associations talk about digitalisation, but mainly refer to the telematics infrastructure (TI) and some accompanying aspects such as digital anamnesis and DTx.

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The practice management benchmarking: A new imaging method in ambulatory medicine

Data, facts and instruments on the German health system

What it’s all about

The “classical” medical imaging procedures help physicians to make diagnostic-therapeutic decisions and serve the purpose of monitoring progress. Practice management benchmarking fulfills the same purpose with regard to primary care and specialty physician management with the help of ratios and their presentation.

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