title: Optimizing workflow and knowledge in healthcare through innovation.
abstract: People's desire is to stay healthy during the entire course of their live. Innovations in medicine in care and technology have always contributed significantly to meet this desire as close as possible. Today, healthcare systems are faced with huge additional challenges. The focus of nearly every healthcare debate is on costs. But is this debate target-oriented and does it support the struggle for further enhancing the quality of care? The implementation of IT assisted workflow and knowledge supporting tools throughout the entire healthcare process--prevention to cure--leads to care which would be much more focused on people's needs and efficiency. The information gained from monitoring and wearable devices has to be included to these tools for delivering comprehensive patient information to the point of care. Then the puzzle of the different components in healthcare linked by IT will be complete, and the care process could be continuously optimized in an efficient way.
authors.affiliation: Siemens AG, Medical Solutions, Henkestrasse 127, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Karl-Jürgen
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Schmitt
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods