For health care:

Developments in the digitalization of healthcare are already strongly influenced by the federal requirements of the Telematics Infrastructure Act and the Patients' Rights Act. MHH is consistently pursuing the political requirements for the implementation of standardization, interoperability and networking of healthcare providers within the framework of the Hospital Future Act (KHZG).

Accordingly, from January 1, 2021, MHH will enter the digital networking of medicine, which begins before a patient is admitted to MHH and extends well into the post-treatment period. For the MHH, this means considerable organizational and financial efforts that will have to be made over the next few years.

As a university maximum care provider, the support of healthcare providers at lower levels of care will play an important role in the future. Possible emergency centers, run by well-trained emergency paramedics and nursing staff, require a connection to interdisciplinary telemedical specialist centers. In addition to the outpatient, day-clinic and inpatient areas, telemedical care and the provision of expert knowledge (e.g. currently teleneurology or the pediatric intensive care network (PIN)) will be a domain of university medicine. Furthermore, the rapid development of mobile devices that can record, measure and send health data (wearables) will change outpatient medicine. Artificial intelligence (AI) will play a major role, particularly in the areas of imaging, laboratory medicine and other diagnostic procedures.

In the area of patient care, a central hospital information system (HIS) is currently being used, which is flanked by special systems. Here, there will be a change from a "monolithic" approach to a platform strategy. This promises greater flexibility with regard to the availability of department-specific special applications. Future system architectures will be based on international standards and ensure the interoperability (IOP) of data and processes between systems, devices, customers and business partners.