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Hospital Future Act
The German Bundestag passed the Hospital Future Act (KHZG) on September 18, 2020, which was confirmed in the Bundesrat on October 9, 2020 with additional demands. From January 1, 2021, 4 billion euros will be made available to strengthen the emergency capacities and IT infrastructure in health care. The sponsors can immediately start implementing their projects and register their funding needs. The funding can amount to up to 85% per project. Even the planning and required staff are eligible. In addition, the federal government separately supports the additional costs resulting from COVID measures on construction sites. See here which projects can be applied for as examples:
Emergency room technology and IT technology
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 1 "the adaptation of the technical and in particular the information technology equipment of the emergency room of a hospital to the current state of the art."
Examples: Call and waiting room management, pavilion for CORONA / fever ambulance as an extension, modernization of ventilation technology, use of mobile air pollution control devices, installation of permanent hygienic protection walls ("spit protection"), mobile patient data acquisition (tablet on the ambulance or in the follow-up service of the ZNA for patient data acquisition)
Conversion of patient rooms and bathrooms
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 11 "Project to adapt patient rooms to the special treatment requirements in the event of an epidemic, in particular by converting rooms with more than two beds into single or double rooms, provided the project leads to a corresponding reduction in the number who leads hospitalized beds. "
Examples: renovation measures, modernization of patient rooms, retrofitting of hygiene protection, retrofitting of room-related bathrooms, access control systems, signage, shutdown costs
Patient portal
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 2 "the establishment of patient portals for digital admission and discharge management, the digital exchange of information between the service providers and the service recipients as well as between the service providers, the care or rehabilitation facilities and the payers before, during and after hospital treatment "
Examples: patient APP with reports and online appointment management / reminders, digital food ordering, self check IN, cloud server, end devices
electronic patient record (ePA)
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 3 "the establishment of a continuous, structured electronic documentation of care and treatment services as well as the establishment of systems that support automated and voice-based documentation of care and treatment services,"
Examples: Introduction according to a tiered concept from 01.01.2021: NFD, eMP and eArztbrief, cloud server, end devices
Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 4 "the establishment of partially or fully automated clinical decision support systems that support clinical service providers with the aim of increasing the quality of care when making treatment decisions through automated information and recommendations,"
Examples: Diagnostic decision support system (DDSS) eg radiology, case-based reasoning system (CBRS), servers, end devices, software
Digital medication management
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 5 "the establishment of a continuous digital medication management to increase drug therapy safety, which provides information on all drug-related treatments over the entire treatment process in the hospital; these facilities also include robot-based control systems for dispensing medication, "
Examples: order entry systems, automatic drug interaction testing, packaging robots, clean rooms, modernization of ventilation technology, software, end devices
Digital processing
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 6 "the establishment of a hospital-internal digital process for requesting services, which enables both the service request and the feedback on the course of the treatment of the patients in electronic form with the aim of the hospital-internal communication processes accelerate,"
Examples: WLAN location of patient or device, WLAN network expansion, clinical workstation systems, waiting room management, in-house ordering system, software, end devices
Telemedicine
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 9 "the procurement, construction, expansion or development of information technology, communication technology and robotics-based systems, systems or processes or spatial measures that are required to set up telemedical network structures between hospitals or between hospitals and outpatient facilities to enable the use of telemedical procedures in the inpatient care of patients, "
Examples: teleconsultation, video consultation, software, end devices
IT infrastructure for networking and security
KHZG §19 (1), Paragraph 10 "the procurement, construction, expansion or development of information technology or communication technology equipment, systems or processes, in order to take organizational and technical precautions appropriate to the state of the art to avoid disruptions in availability, integrity and the confidentiality of the information technology systems, (...) "
Examples: Hardware, software, end devices, CAFM systems, SmS, vFM, SAP FM, electronic fault acceptance and control, electronic order management in infrastructural building management, digital facility management (FM), uniform service control for order acceptance, processing and accounting for operations, medical technology, patient or goods logistics