Counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the long term

The increasing competition for specialists in inpatient and outpatient areas is moving the German healthcare market strongly. Specialists in hospitals are becoming a scarce resource. Motivated and qualified employees are a key success factor. Fewer junior staff and at the same time an increasing need for medical and nursing services lead to a tense labor market situation and will affect the economic situation of the hospitals. 

For management and HR managers, this means that finding and retaining qualified employees is becoming increasingly important.

In addition to the reform in the supply of skilled workers required by politics and business, clinics must individually go new ways in order to present themselves as attractive employers and to meet the changed expectations of the skilled workers. Together with the clinics, gök Consulting develops sustainable solutions to reduce the need for skilled workers and to make working conditions more attractive, e.g. through flexible working time models, age-appropriate workplaces, further training or even optimized care processes.

Reorganization of purchasing and logistics

Hospitals are often faced with the challenge of implementing a cross-departmental concept for purchasing and logistics. Modern processes and clear organizational structures enable an increase in profitability and quality for this area. 

Detailed analyzes and potential assessments of the entire logistical processes and structures form the basis for a functioning, IT-supported logistics concept. In the foreground are integrated, interlinked process chains of all supply goods and a transparent overall company organization planning, which allow the mapping of complex structures.

gök Consulting supports hospitals during implementation with a comprehensive restructuring and future-oriented realignment of purchasing and logistics as a holistic concept.

Health campus Bad Säckingen: The hot phase begins

Press release in the Südkurier

The development of the Bad Säckingen Health Campus is entering a decisive phase. The economic valuation should be available by the end of the month. That means: Then it should be clear what the campus costs. This will also determine whether the existing hospital building will be renovated or whether there will be a new building.

What is the project status? The consulting company GöK-Consulting has determined the interest in the campus on behalf of the city and the district since the beginning of the year. (…) GöK developed a first area program from this (…).

Here is the detailed press release to read.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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