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Health campus Bad Säckingen generates high demand

Press release in the Badische Zeitung 

There was a first progress report on the development of the health campus in Bad Säckingen on Wednesday. Michael Schaaf from gök Consulting presented the current state of planning at the district council in Waldshut. The great interest that the project had met was positive.

Hereis the detailed press release.

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Change management – impulses for the leadership of people in the digital age

Dr.René Rottleb und Dr. med. Stefan Drauschke 

Principles for Cultural Change in Partnership
– Interview & Article Series –
Often enough, there is still a strong professional group-specific mindset in healthcare. In contrast, increasing digitalization and new, disruptive business developments pose new challenges for hospital management.
Food for thought is required, as Dr. med. Stefan Drauschke and Dr. Show René Rottleb from the perspective of an IT expert and from the perspective of a coach. Because new impulses are needed to guide people in the digital age.

The three-part series of articles on “change management” shows IT managers and clinic management ideas, solutions and implementation approaches.

In the coming issues of the Hospital IT Journal:
Part 1 – Reason and conception
Part 2 – Solutions
Part 3 – Implementation

You can watch the interview as a prelude to the topic and the series of articles here over time.

Hospital IT Journal, various editions 2017/2018

www.medizin-edv.de

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/interview_changemanagement_im_digitalen_zeitalter.pdf
https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/anlass_und_konzeption_von_it_projekten_im_gesundheitswesen.pdf
https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/losungswege_finden_fur_it-projekte_im_gesundheitswesen_0.pdf
https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/umsetzung_von_it-projekten_im_gesundheitswesen_0.pdf

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Reduction in material costs through strategic purchasing

Hartmut Ponßen, Nils Steinert, Richard Haine, Barbara Dubicki

The Insel Group in Bern was created in 2016 through the merger of Inselspital and Spitalnetz Bern AG. With its six locations with a graduated care model, the Insel Group is one of the leading providers of health services in Switzerland. The merger, together with the changing political and economic framework in the course of the introduction of the SwissDRG, forms the basis for the start of extensive projects for cost optimization in the Insel Group.

In addition to implementing modern logistics processes, the main focus is on reducing the costs of medical supplies. Together with gök Consulting as management consultancy, 11 sub-projects were initiated in two phases. In addition to lowering purchase prices, harmonizing and optimizing the product portfolio was an important part of the project, which was carried out in just under two years. The technical article presents the procedure and the results using the example of cardiology.

Homes and hospitals, October 2017 edition, pp. 22-23
https://www.heimeundspitaeler.ch/

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/heime_u_spitaeler_sachkostensenkung_durch_strategischen_einkauf.pdf

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Geriatric medicine offers an opportunity for growth – recognize geriatric potential and use additional proceeds

Dr. Peter Vetter, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Risse, Stefanie Kolbe 

The demographic development makes geriatrics a growth area in acute inpatient care. Geriatric potential is currently unused in many hospitals. There is not inconsiderable additional revenue for hospitals because the billing options are not used by geriatric complex flat rates.
One reason for this is the lack of structured screening to identify geriatric patients. On the other hand, the lack of an agreement on the internal allocation of services between the specialist departments involved in many places also helps to ensure that geriatric potential is not used. It is therefore important to identify and use the geriatric potential and the additional revenue generated as a result, and to establish an attractive method for internal activity allocation for all the specialist departments involved.

KU Health Management , Edition 01/2016, pp. 40-44

www.ku-gesundheitsmanagement.de

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/wachstumschance_altersmedizin_geriatrisches_potenzial.pdf

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Medical center formation – concept for the Austrian health system?

Dipl.-Vw. Dr. Max Laimböck, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Risse, Stefanie Kolbe 

The health system is characterized by constant and rapidly progressing change, which makes it increasingly difficult for the patient to keep track of and thus compare possibilities over the increasingly complex treatment methods offered. It is therefore understandable that health policy demands for appropriate quality evidence and increased transparency on the part of the informed patient are becoming increasingly important.

In response to this development, different concepts and offers were created in Germany – this included the formation of medical centers. While center formation has become widespread in the German health care system, it has not yet been able to establish itself in the Austrian health care system. The article describes the basic features of the establishment of medical centers and the options for an introduction to the Austrian health system.

ÖKZ – Das österreichische Gesundheitswesen, Ausgabe 08-09/2015, Seite 39-40

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/medizinische_zentrenbildung_konzept_fuer_das_oesterreichische_gesundheitssystem.pdf

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Controlling patient flows – Admission, occupancy and discharge management at Nagold Hospital

Dr. Elke Frank, Alexandre Holzheimer, Dr. Jörg Risse 

The organizational-administrative tasks of the inpatient patient flow are often characterized by a strong process fragmentation. Various actors perform similar activities, such as scheduling the inpatient admission of electric patients. This results in a large number of interfaces with ambiguous responsibilities in the patient flow process. The result is increased transparency and process complexity. The article describes the procedure for developing a concept for admission, occupancy and discharge management for the Nagold Hospital of the Southwest Clinic Association.

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/patientenfluesse_steuern_abe-management.pdf

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Control currents

Jürgen Feldmann, Thomas Wadel, Dr. Jörg Risse, Ulrike Gies, Alexandre Holzheimer 

For five years now, the Bergmannsheil University Medical Center in Bochum has been building a new functional wing and ward block. Transport logistics face the challenge of maintaining security of supply and disposal during all project phases. At the same time, the construction measures offer the opportunity to strategically align hospital logistics for the future and to optimize ineffective processes.

f & w manage and operate in hospitals, issue 04-2015, pp. 266-269

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/stroeme_steuern_transportlogistik_und_logistikstrategie.pdf

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Complementary advice in the dynamic market

Hartmut Ponßen, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Risse, Pia Drauschke, Dr. med. Stefan Drauschke 

The developments in the healthcare sector are progressing rapidly and bring about serious changes. In particular, clinics as complex organizations have to find their individual roles under new framework conditions and need concepts that enable them to have stable structures and make them fit for the future. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to design qualitative decision-making and development processes.

In addition to technical knowledge, business consultancies also need the competence to have a lasting positive influence on a process of personal and group dynamic development. This leads to the approach of complementary advice. Classic management consulting as well as “systemic” process consulting with their respective focal points represent the two consulting approaches and combine the respective advantages.

kma report beratung, edition March 2015, p. 21

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/kma_report_beratung_2015_unternehmensportrait_goek_nh.pdf

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Less hierarchy, more development – carers in management responsibility

Christiane Becker, Susann Krasemann, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Risse

The University Hospital Halle (Saale) has streamlined its organizational structure, created modern support structures for nursing care and thus initiated a change process. The new nursing clinic management replaced the former ward and nursing management. Nurses selected in assessments and qualified in a trainee program use their scope to improve employee management.

f & w manage and operate in hospitals, issue 12-2014 / 01-2015, pp. 1146-1149

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffständigungen/weniger_hierarchie_mehr_entfaltung_-_pflegende_in_der_fuehrungsverantwortung_0.pdf

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Strategy development and change management

Helmut Nawratil, Hartmut Ponßen, Pia Drauschke, Dr. med. Stefan Drauschke 

The example of the district hospitals in Middle Franconia shows how important a clear strategy and transparent communication are for the economic success of a company. In a stringent strategy process, with the active involvement of managers and employees, concrete goals were set on the basis of a future concept and communicated openly. In addition to the economic recovery of the district clinics, this change process also led to higher employee satisfaction.

KU Health Management, edition 12/2014, pp. 41-43

https://goek-consulting.de/sites/default/files/veroeffentlichungen/strategieentwicklung_und_changemanagement.pdf