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Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH)

08.09. - 13.09.2024, Dresden

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Health IT Adoption in German Hospitals: Could We See Any Changes between 2017 and 2023?

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  • Ursula Hertha Hübner - Forschungsgruppe Informatik im Gesundheitswesen - Hochschule Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
  • Jana Strate - Forschungsgruppe Informatik im Gesundheitswesen - Hochschule Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
  • Lea Bicker - Forschungsgruppe Informatik im Gesundheitswesen - Hochschule Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
  • Laura Naumann - Forschungsgruppe Informatik im Gesundheitswesen - Hochschule Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Vandage GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Moritz Esdar - Deutsche Krankenhaus Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
  • Jan-David Liebe - Forschungsgruppe Informatik im Gesundheitswesen - Hochschule Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08.-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. DocAbstr. 538

doi: 10.3205/24gmds001, urn:nbn:de:0183-24gmds0012

Published: September 6, 2024

© 2024 Hübner et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Introduction: Increase in health IT adoption is often driven by financial support through the state. In 2020, the German Hospital Future Law passed Parliament with a schedule to see potential effects in 2023. The research question of the present study thus was if there were differences between 2017 and 2023 in selected application areas eligible for funding by the law.

Methods: Availability and percentage of use in clinical units was measured in a panel of 172 hospitals for these areas. A linear mixed model with repeated measures yielded a significant increase in “medication management” and “discharge management”.

Results and discussion: In “medication management”, hospitals in a group as compared to single hospitals tripled the percentage of clinical units using IT systems for this purpose. Not-for-profit hospitals doubled their IT systems for “discharge management” when compared to for-profit hospitals.

Conclusion: Whether these changes can be attributed to the Hospital Future Law is debatable due to severe delays in various fields, particularly in making funding available. There is room for speeding up particularly the administrative funding process and finally demonstrating results that are proportional to the government money invested.

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

The authors declare that a positive ethics committee vote has been obtained.