CompuGROUP demands more efficiency and security in the healthcare system
15.10.2009 15:20
World Health Summit in Berlin
CompuGROUPHolding AG, a leading eHealth provider worldwide, is committed to an innovative healthcare system. Decision support systems and the electronic health record improve the diagnosis and therapy of patients and at the same time increase efficiency, according to the company. Chief Medical Officer, CMO Prof. Dr. med. Stefan F.Winter, today at the World Health Summit in Berlin.
The overarching goal of CompuGROUP is to increase the efficiency of the healthcare system by 15 percent - without resorting to rationing measures. In order to achieve this, the eHealth provider relies on the cross-sector networking of everyone involved in the healthcare system and the introduction of a powerful nationwide telematics infrastructure. In CompuGROUP's opinion, this should be achieved by a consortium led by the partner companies of service providers in association with Gematik (Gesellschaft for Telematics Applications of the GesundheitkartembH).
CompuGROUP considers the greater use of intelligent medical software, so-called Medical Decision Support Systems (MDSS), to be equally important. Decision support systems provide doctors with relevant medical information electronically based on the health data of the respective patient at exactly the right time and in the right place. In this way, the practitioners are supported effectively and efficiently in their daily, responsible work related to the optimized diagnosis and therapy of their patients. The focus is on increasing the quality of care through greater diagnostic and therapeutic reliability as the third pillar - alongside medicines and medical devices. With broader use of MDSS, almost three million incorrect medication prescriptions could be eliminated every year in Germany alone, leading to over a million unnecessary hospital days and over 15,000 deaths due to - avoidable! - Drug side effects can be drastically reduced.
“We are therefore in favor of the nationwide introduction of a confiscation-proof, doctor-managed electronic health record via an effective incentive system. Not as a compulsion, but as an advantageous option for higher treatment quality,” demands Medical Director Prof. Dr. med. Stefan F. Winter, CMO of CompuGROUP, who will speak on this topic at the World Health Summit on October 15th. Statutory health insurance companies and private health insurance companies should be able to use new technologies to increase efficiency in the healthcare system in fair competition with each other. The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians should be able to concentrate fully on its safety and quality assurance mandate again - after the abolition of excessively bureaucratic regulations. “Intelligent IT solutions in care will have a decisive influence on individual medicine in the 21st century and at the same time represent a completely new form of health policy: evidence-based public health strategies,” Winter continued.