Ab dem 1. Januar 2015 gilt nur noch die elektronische Gesundheitskarte

We are all well aware of how healthcare is changing in response to new disruptive ideas. What we often don’t know is how to create new models that combine socially favorable needs with radical innovations within the health sector. With “socially favorable”  I either mean patient-centered or anything that is somehow able to provide tangible benefits for social wellbeing. Physicians often still perceive health as a unilateral variable, focusing on getting patients the right treatment at the right time. Pharmaceutical companies are struggling with getting new drugs in their pipelines while investing insanely amounts on R&D, after which they are forced to sell the product for millions –if not billions– of dollars. Health insurers sell packages that mostly include unnecessary services and deny what individuals really need. Governments are implementing regulations on top of regulations that hamper genuine health outcomes and (in)-directly favor the most powerful parties. When you enter a hospital, several patients don’t want to be informed about their health status, they simply want to get a pill, injection or treatment and get out as fast as possible. Societies, cities, individuals, often times do not care what being healthy entails. Needless to say, that all of the above […]

Ein Kollege sendete mir gestern einen Aufruf zur Beteiligung an der “Petition zur Mindestpflegepersonalbesetzung in deutschen Krankenhäusern“. Als ehemaliger Krankenpfleger kenne ich das Problem sehr gut. Nach Angaben der Petitions-Website betreut in Deutschland eine Pflegekraft bis zu 15 Patienten. In Skandinavien z.B. … Weiterlesen →