Opening speakers unanimously emphasize: Modern patient care and management is not possible without digitalization. Austria has to catch up.
Vienna (OTS) – With more than 250 visitors, this year’s Digital Health Symposium has established itself as a true hotspot for digitalization in the health sector. PRAEVENIRE President Dr. In the opening, Hans Jörg Schelling referred to the exciting selection of topics that address the hot topics of healthcare and have their finger on the pulse of the times, such as waiting time management, AI in medicine, the national e-health strategy or the European Health Data Space.
Dr. In her lecture, Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmid, Vice President and Chairwoman of the Curia of Resident Doctors at the Vienna Medical Association, described the primary care of the future and what challenges the establishment of a PVE means in practice.
Dr. Anita Puppe, from IBM iX, showed how AI is revolutionizing patient care: Austria should take a role model and the DACH region should take a role model from Estonia and Israel, which have developed the digitalization of the healthcare sector very well.
Silvio Frey, from Detecon Switzerland, explained that for a data driven hospital, “silo solutions” and media breaks must be overcome and a digital strategy is required as a basis.
Dr. Alexander Biach, Deputy Director of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, presented current figures on the health sector in Austria. The public sector spent around 40 billion in 2022. It is noteworthy that the costs in the hospital sector in particular have increased massively compared to the private practice sector.
Andreas Huss, MBA, deputy chairman of the ÖGK, followed on from the previous speaker and presented the practical implementation of the financial equalization 2023. In order to actually shift care from the inpatient to the practice area as planned there and provide care there, the PVE would need to be expanded by 2030 from the current 60 to 300. For him, a break in this strategy is the distribution of financial resources, which continues the previous weighting with 700 million for the hospital sector and only 300 million for the private practice sector.
In the subsequent discussion, Angelika Widhalm, President of the Federal Association of Self-Help Austria, emphasized that digitalization must be patient-centered and person-oriented.
Numerous prominent speakers from business, politics and health care will shed light on exciting topics in the area of digital health care until lunchtime tomorrow. The Startup Pitch Contest and the presentation of these young companies as part of the symposium exhibition provide an insight into where digitalization could go and what solutions are already possible in this regard.
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