PROMs: m.Doc becomes technology partner of Vivantes Kliniken
21.04.2022 11:08
International studies show: Including the patient's perspective in healthcare can significantly increase the quality of treatment. More and more clinics are therefore collecting quality of life parameters, so-called Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), as part of their quality management. The digital collection of ePROMs directly in the patient journey is considered to be future-oriented. Vivantes, as the largest municipal hospital group in Germany, also decided on this path and chose m.Doc from Cologne when selecting a suitable technology partner.
m.Doc becomes the technology partner of Vivantes – Network for Health from Berlin. As part of a multi-stage public tender, the Cologne-based company was able to convince Germany's largest municipal hospital group with its patient portal m.Doc Smart Clinic and its deep integration into the patient journey. In the future, a wide variety of quality of life scores will be collected digitally via the Smart Clinic before and after clinical care.
“The collection of PROMs in the patient journey will not only be necessary through quality definitions motivated by health policy, but will also develop into a valuable and directly usable contribution within the improvement process of medical excellence. Healthcare providers like Vivantes meet these high standards; “Digital measurement within the patient journey is a matter of course for us and is also an important prerequisite for collecting structured data as close as possible to the patient,” says Dr. Sebastian Karmann, head of department in the Vivantes Medicine department, on the objectives of the project.
Adds Admir Kulin, managing director of m.Doc from Cologne: “If you as a provider want to harness the great potential of patient-centeredness today, you have to leverage the digital treasure of relationships between the practitioner and the patient. Since its founding, m.Doc has been developing interlocking application modules for clinicians and patients alike based on an integrative digital platform. The collection of ePROMs opens up a wide range of opportunities for quality improvement within the patient journey and in the context of all other modules of the Smart Clinic.”
m.Doc has been collecting digital ePROMs for five years via its Smart Clinic patient portal, which is the leading patient portal in the German market. The open and stable platform architecture also makes m.Doc a sought-after partner in the area of clinical registry studies. However, the KHZG-funded patient portal can do much more. Numerous clinics in Germany already rely on the Smart Clinic with its over 30 process-oriented modules that cover the entire patient journey from the perspective of both practitioners and patients. And it is precisely this modular structure that ensures that every house is picked up at the level of digitalization at which it currently is. An experienced implementation team at m.Doc is responsible for a safe introduction into regular operations.