Abstracts by keywords: Integrated healthcare
The importance of holistic, cross-sector care concepts and the associated requirements for the daily work of medical and nursing service providers are in a continuous process of change. New forms of care, intersectoral cooperation and process optimization measures are a central component and at the same time the basis of modern patient care. A transfer of information and knowledge related to these circumstances thus becomes a critical factor for the final quality of the service provision and its maximum possible care efficiency [1]. Building on this, new, complex requirements for technical work tools and communication media are developing, which meaningfully complement existing supply structures or even take on a central cross-sectional function [2, 3]. The influence of electronic procedures increases exponentially as soon as sectoral boundaries are broken particularly frequently in a still fragmented care system, large spatial distances have to be overcome or intersectoral cooperation becomes particularly important in terms of treatment success [3, 4]. All of these factors are of central importance, especially for the design of new and information-intensive forms of care within the meaning of the Fifth Social Security Code (Table 1) [5]. Information and communication technology (ICT) solutions must demonstrate the potential here to better meet the current and future challenges in the healthcare system [6, 7] [8] and at the same time sustainably increase quality and cost-effectiveness [1, 3, 9]