Can Servitization heal the sick hospitals?
Hospitals also have to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers, rarely make a profit and have to master digitalisation through innovations in order to remain fit for the future. Many see closer cooperation with medical technology companies as a possible way out of this dilemma. They are trying to bind hospitals to themselves through servitization. According to a regular survey cond...
Why the glass patient in Austria is fragile
ELGA promises to provide doctors, hospitals and other health service providers with exactly the individual patient data they need at the touch of a button. This saves effort, improves treatment and can sometimes save lives - at least in theory. In practice, ELGA has so far proven to be a cumbersome tool that also carries one or two serious risks. Health data captured by cyberattacks, w...
Why lack of time and cost pressure in health care can become expensive
A general practitioner in Austria can take just 5 minutes for a patient on average. The reason for this is the lack of doctors and cost pressure. In this blog post you can read why the focus on efficiency in health care not only reduces the quality of medical care, but can ultimately become expensive for society as a whole. In order to treat a disease successfully, it is necessary to k...
Pharmacogenetics for faster drug development
50 Austrian citizens die every year from side effects of drugs. Markus Paulmichl explains in an interview how pharmacogenetics can help patients to obtain drugs more quickly without causing side effects. The Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg also reveals how each of us can use pharmacogenetics today and why innovatio...
