Hospital Future Act

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Discover the Hospital Future Act, Germany’s response to COVID-19, focusing on upgrading hospital digital infrastructure, enhancing patient care, and boosting IT security.

Improving the digital infrastructure in hospitals – what needs to be done?

In light of the Corona pandemic, the German government decided to quickly get a Hospital Future Act underway.

One of its aims is to improve digital infrastructures at hospitals. The program supports and promotes investments made towards patient care and organization as well as communication and documentation.

It also aims to improve IT and cyber security in the healthcare sector.

Learn more in our free information package on the Hospital Future Act.

So how do you get started? Find out more in our reference reports!

Among other things, we offer support for:

Protecting sensitive patient data from unauthorized access and supporting digital application and administration processes
Security and compliance in the network: “Secure network for hospital group” case study
Accelerated processes through the introduction of document-based workflows in hospitals, such as St. Elisabeth Leipzig, Lahn-Dill, Segeberger Kliniken or Landkreis Tuttlingen
These are just a small sample of projects implemented to date.

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