😪 The Federal Ministry of Health is drafting one law after another.

😪 The players complain about the regulatory frenzy and financial difficulties.

😪 Employees no longer know how to cope with all the bureaucracy and are suffering under constant financial pressure.

❓ But who makes sure that the processes are designed in an interdisciplinary and interprofessional way so that the work can be done effortlessly? 🏥💼

❓ Who is digitizing work processes? Who will ensure that AI finds its way into the hospital to take over repetitive work? 🤖🖥️

Oh yes, right, there was no time for that! But there was time to get annoyed? 😤

Take your time and work on the processes.

Remember: Without end-to-end processes, there is no digitalization, no workload reduction, no efficiency, no success. 💪✨

Aver: It’s not so easy to think in terms of end-to-end processes when you’ve been thinking in silos for years.
Train your team to think in terms of processes.

And: it takes patience, perseverance and a lot of know-how to bring order to complex systems.

Good luck and have a good start to the week.

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2. less bureaucracy, be it in budget negotiations with the health insurance funds, audits by the medical service, etc. 🖇

3. consistent focus on the needs of patients and not on sectors (outpatient/inpatient) or professional groups.

4. reorganization of investment financing: modern technology, IT equipment and up-to-date infrastructure.💰

5. Uniform data standards: What is taken for granted in the supermarket must also be possible in the healthcare sector. 💻

6. IT systems must be interoperable💻

7. digital cross-sector patient file: Every attending physician must know medication, laboratory values, other findings, previous illnesses and previous treatments = data protection in the interests of the patient. 💻

8. unconditional commitment to quality in every hospital: my suggestion: quality management concepts such as the Magnet Recognition Program or accreditation according to Joint Commission standards should become mandatory.

9. make supply bottlenecks transparent for all products, not just medicines.

10 Fewer laws instead of more. Healthcare stakeholders are drowning in laws and regulations. ⚖

11. attractive working and training conditions for all professional groups.

12. new distribution of tasks between the professional groups: Away from doctor-centricity towards more interdisciplinarity across professional groups.

13. no money for dilapidated structures. But rather develop intelligent, innovative, regional concepts. And: Courage for the planned closure of hospitals.

14. personnel management competence must be anchored in hospital management.

15. rethink governance structures:
❓ Is the tripartite division into nursing, medical management and commercial management in the interests of patient orientation?
❓Does it make sense for university hospitals to be part of the Ministry of Science and all other hospitals to be part of the Ministry of Social Affairs or the Ministry of Health?
❓How should supervisory bodies be composed?

16. courageous politicians who drive intelligent change in the regions. It makes neither medical nor economic sense for mayors, district administrators and state politicians to hold on to “their” hospital.

17. attractive working conditions for doctors and pharmacists in private practice.

18. New concepts for emergency care.

19. strengthening the health literacy of the population.

20 Prevention must also play a much greater role in medical studies.

21. other incentive and funding systems: more money for talking medicine, for health coaching, not just rewarding those who do the most cases. 💰

22. excellent healthcare for citizens, whether in the countryside or in the city. ❤️

#What have I forgotten? Which points are important to you?

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#Health policy

I’m eager to hear your thoughts on the Healthcare out of the box and HealthCareBrain collaboration episode.

We talk about the importance of digitalization, AI, open source technology and prevention in healthcare.

We discuss New Work and the absolute necessity of intergenerational collaboration and that work should be enjoyable and fulfilling regardless of age.

The discussion about hospital reform is still open-ended, and a real sense of optimism is still a long way off.

Added to this are global political developments and (de)globalization. Purchasing is the driver and shaper of globalization. Managers and buyers need to adapt, anticipate the future and actively shape markets.

Fascinated, we review the dialogue on morality and money by Thomas Lemke and Prof. Giovanni Maio.

Unfortunately, of course, many questions remain unanswered in a world full of uncertainty, but we will break with tradition and think out-of-the-box.

Have fun listening. We look forward to your feedback.

Listen to the podcast on Apple:

https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/healthcare-out-box-podcast-f%C3%BCr-entrepreneurship-und/id1540074266?i=1000628276428

Listen on Spotify:
#32 Special Episode with Dr. Kerstin Stachel and Lennart Eltzholtz – Healthcare out-of-the-box – Podcast for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Healthcare | Podcast on Spotify

#hospital management#Purchasing#HealthCareBrain

The hard magic: revenues up and costs down….

Revenues up!

🧚‍♂️ The magic formula: Quantity * Price 🧚‍♂️

in other words, more patients, more severe cases, higher prices.

Showstoppers:

🛑 Falling case numbers throughout Germany. So it’s whisking patients away from other hospitals.

🛑 More severe cases? Of course, if the technical equipment is available and the quality and structural specifications are met and, of course, there are enough patients and staff.

🛑 Higher prices: Prices are set by the legislator. No chance for the magicians. Or new professional field for all those who can steer politics in the right direction with the power of thought (or argument?!).

Costs down!

It’s simple: Conjure away personnel and material costs and conjure up a modern infrastructure with low energy and logistics costs…Conjure up tertiary services such as cleaning, food supply, …..günstiger

Showstoppers: inflation, rising wage and energy costs. Old buildings, structural requirements and intensive audits by health insurers. Minimum Wage….

But clearly our magician can do it (ok a little bit) and then comes the real magic…… 💫

Curtain up for a beautiful reporting system that enchants and is even more beautiful even better even better than the last versions…

an even better lecture on the exploits ….

🤥 Our magician hopes that the facade does not crumble, hopes that the outcries of doctors and nurses do not become even louder….

Yes staff shortage, closed beds, specialist for this and that is missing….true, but that can be overlooked or?


No! You can not!

✍ Adequate funding is needed for hospitals to remain on the grid now, not in 2026.

And of course, there is a broad consensus that fewer hospitals are needed. However, this must not be left to chance. Smart regional concepts must be developed under the leadership of the federal states.

✍ Hospitals need well-trained managers, real HR managers who understand how to guide people through change and create excellent working conditions.

💫 Who knows the magician, the conjurer, the expert or the scientist, 💫…

👉 that finally makes our politicians rethink,

👉 who ensures that bureaucracy moves out of hospitals and digitalization moves in?

👉 who makes the hospital what it should be again: a place where people are allowed to put their heart and soul into caring for patients?

If you / he meets them make sure that he is not chased away 😉
What do you/they think about how to proceed?
#hospitalmanagement

As a leader, you’re there,
✍ when everyone is already at home,
✍ hold your head down when something has gone wrong,
✍ you know the soul of your employees and get the best out of them

make sure of it,
✍ that your employees will survive the one or other valley of tears well,
✍ that they believe in themselves even when the situation seems hopeless,
✍ that visions become reality.

In short:

As a manager, you serve your employees and your
✍ make them better people.
✍ makes them grow wings.
✍ Make sure they get better than you.
✍ enable them to achieve things they never thought possible.

💥 In short: You are catalyst, personal developer, coach, listener, storyteller, motivator, doer…. 💥

You ask yourself: Where am I? Where do I get my strength and energy every day?

✍ You take pleasure in the growth of others.
✍ You are happy about your successes.
You are grateful that you can make the world a little better.

What could be more beautiful?

Too dreamy? Too idealistic?

That is my understanding of leadership.

How do you see it?

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Do you know the situation? You have to tell your employee a negative message. He didn’t perform in the last months and now you struggle with bad contracts. If he doesn’t change, you have to finish his contract by the end of the year. You feel insecure, don’t want to hurt your employee, you are afraid of tears or emotional outbursts —- because bottom line you like him and you know that he ist in trouble with family issues.

What do you do: you use fluff words and you are so grateful for any distraction in the conversation: vacation, weather, family. Result? None.

Your employee continues as before. Your message didn’t reach him. He won’t change.

Solution: Communicate difficult messages in a very simple way.
I learned this method in a communication seminar for medical professionals. As a doctor sometimes you have to tell bad news. How do you talk about a cancer diagnosis? This messages are called: identity-changing messages. Because the news will change your life fundamentally.

The question in the seminar: How do I communicate to a patient that he has a serious illness?

Traditional with many technical terms. Result: The patient understands little or nothing.

He heards what he wants to hear, maybe something like “I’m not really well, but it’s not that bad, I’ll be fine.”

Not so bad, you think? At least no tears.. no emotional outbreak… No, quite the opposite:
The patient does not get the chance to act because he does not understand the seriousness of the situation.
He may postpone urgently needed measures, not take medication, not change his lifestyle. Is this what the doctor wants? No! After all, he wants to help. He is dependent on the patient’s support and compliance.

In working life it’s about the same. You want that your employee changes behaviou but he only will change, when he understands that there ist no other option, that the situation is very serious. So lets talk about the method. But keep in mind: these kind of talks are exhausting but i promise in many cases you will see that your employees really will change.
The 12 steps:
1️⃣ Give a friendly welcome to your employee.
2️⃣ Give a brief introduction to the topic. Avoid distracting prefaces, polite banter or small talk.
3️⃣ First clear and unambiguous message: e.g. “I will terminate the employment contract with you by the end of the year. I am very dissatisfied with your performance.
4️⃣ Short pause. Give the employee the possibility to understand the message.
5️⃣ RRepeat the message.
6️⃣ Stay calm if there are any emotional reactions. Give him a bit of time.
7️⃣ Show compassion, but definitely don’t show pity.
8️⃣ Ask him if he understood the key message. If you have the impression that he didn’t understand. Repeat.
9️⃣ Show options for action: Tell him what he needs to do to change. Fix tasks with a date until he hat to complete the task. As concrete as possible. Complete the following task by …
1️⃣ 0️⃣ Define exactly the next steps. What until what date?
1️⃣ 2️⃣ End the call. Don’t allow any discussions. Again, avoid strictly banter or small talk.

Conclusion: Say directly what it’s the problem an what will happen if he doesn’t change his behaviour.

2. Miro
We use Miro(miro.com ) for online workshops or interactive online collaboration in teams. MIRO offers all the tools for a professional workshop.

3.veed.io
And last but not least: We started working with videos. A challenge for us. Partly, the software solutions for cutting and editing are complicated (for us). With www.veed.io we have managed to cut videos quickly,
automatically provide subtitles
and add some effects.

And one more thing 😉: If you want to try something new, it’s worth taking a look at tryitonai.com. You upload photos and the AI simulates a photo studio. I have used one of the results as a picture here. Not bad, but I prefer a real photographer.