Building on the first part of our lecture series on “Future of Health – Trends and Drivers of Transformation in the German Healthcare System”, the second part of the lecture series examined the topic of “Technology and Digitalization”. After a brief introduction and overview of the new ecosystem in the healthcare sector, speakers Alexander Morton and Jan Oswald from Deloitte presented the current status of the degree of digitalization in the German healthcare/hospital sector, also in an international comparison. The prerequisites, but also the limits and opportunities for further digitalization in the German healthcare sector were discussed and the topic of “interoperability” in particular was highlighted. Finally, the Hospital Future Act and the EUR 4.3 billion fund were discussed with the participants during the presentations of several specific digitalization projects in the field of e-health.
