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Management of Hospital Systems (MHS)

Pillar D - Management of Hospital Systems (MHS)

- deals with aspects of the ideal organisational design of a hospital in a digital world. Hospitals are highly complex networked systems that need to be intelligently controlled and managed. New forms of management and technological solutions are therefore being sought that reduce the growing complexity and fulfil the multi-layered needs of patients and employees. In sub-project D.1, a serious game is being developed to train the holistic thinking of managers. In D.2, research is being conducted into how innovation decisions can be made on the basis of evidence. Flexible capacity management issues using the example of personnel planning are analysed in D.3. Finally, D.4. develops a set of methods that allow the (economic) quantification of the various smart hospital solutions.

The "Pillar D" projects

D.1: Intelligent management of networked hospitals - a digital simulation game

As hospitals become increasingly specialised in medicine, the complexity and fragmentation of individual disciplines also increases. At the same time, this circumstance encourages thinking and acting within a predetermined framework and in bound…

D.2: Innovation with impact: evidence-based innovation

Around 90% of innovation projects fail. With evidence-based innovation, we want to identify the most promising projects earlier and systematically lead them to success.

D.3: Demand-orientated flexible personnel capacity management in hospitals

Needs-based personnel budgeting and planning is one of the keys to reducing the shortage of healthcare professionals in hospitals. When staff resources are scarce, they must be budgeted and shifts staffed in such a way that they enable medical care…

D.4: Method kit for quantifying the process potential of digital health tools

Although digital health applications promise great gains in effectiveness and efficiency for the healthcare system, measurable proof is often difficult due to a lack of data. heyPatient also faces this challenge.