Digitalization in the healthcare sector brings with it numerous opportunities, but also challenges that need to be overcome. Digital health applications and eHealth technologies make it possible to optimize processes and improve the quality of care.
Digital health applications (DiGA) in particular offer patients and doctors new perspectives for healthcare.
However, investments and change processes are essential in order to fully exploit the potential.
Digitalization in the healthcare sector: Opportunities and challenges
Staff shortages, low value-added work, manual processes and rising costs are now the order of the day and often have a negative impact on company performance. It is usually the company’s own employees and those of its customers who suffer. The result? Dissatisfaction and declining efficiency.
Challenges
So how do I manage to control my internal costs, build up and retain my customers in the long term without always having to enter into tense customer discussions because I have to enforce price adjustments? The cause does not lie in the pricing policy, but in the process structures of the customers and the company itself.
Products, especially consumer goods, are becoming increasingly comparable and therefore interchangeable.
Competition
How do you manage to escape all the price and service competition these days? Because one thing is clear; no matter how good the quality of your product or how large your portfolio is, how much service you offer or how much power you put into sales – there will always be someone “cheaper”.
So why get involved in this battle?
Become the supply partner
Be different from the others and differentiate yourself from your competitors. Become THE supply partner for your customers and establish your supply process as the standard. Your customers’ manual processes are almost completely eliminated. Become an irreplaceable partner, reduce your internal process costs and increase your market share so that you can focus on the essentials – building and expanding your customer base.
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Our solution: smart supply - the digital future of supply
With our smart supply, we create “fully automated distribution points” for manufacturers and wholesalers in the healthcare and industrial sectors. Our intelligent sensor elements detect consumption and transmit it directly to your system.
With the smart supply solution from neoalto, you can place fully digitalized goods containers directly at your customers’ point of use, which independently reorder used goods – regardless of the storage situation, flexible to use anywhere and easy to integrate.
Find out how you can move away from inadequate resource management in the healthcare sector and towards smart procurement systems for greater sustainability and efficiency in our Onepager about resource optimization in material management or in our 1-minute explanatory video:
Find out how you can move away from inadequate resource management in the healthcare sector and towards smart procurement systems for greater sustainability and efficiency in our Onepager about resource optimization in material management or in our 1-minute explanatory video:
Digitalization in the healthcare sector is bringing about fundamental changes and revolutionizing traditional structures. E-health and digital health solutions, such as digital health applications, play a central role in this. They enable more efficient, patient-oriented care and improve both diagnosis and treatment processes. Digital health applications offer patients individual, digital therapy options that can be used conveniently from home. The use of eHealth technologies also strengthens interoperability between different healthcare providers, which significantly improves the overall quality of healthcare.
Sustainable procurement also plays a crucial role in the future of healthcare. Through sustainable procurement, hospitals can reduce their environmental impact and help combat climate change.
This is particularly important given the increasing global health risks from pollution and climate change.
The importance of sustainable procurement for the future of healthcare also lies in strengthening the social commitment of hospitals.
By supporting fair trade products, hospitals can contribute to improving working conditions in global supply chains.
Overall, sustainable procurement has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by considering environmental, social and economic (ESG) aspects equally.
By implementing sustainable procurement practices, hospitals can take a pioneering role in the healthcare industry and make a positive contribution to sustainability.
Sustainable process optimization in medical materials management and climate-conscious resource conservation are inextricably linked, which is why we are proud to be part of the ZUKE Green Community as a sustainability partner. In the ZUKE Green Community, we want to work together on a more climate-friendly future for the healthcare sector and take action quickly. As a solution provider in the healthcare sector, we automate supply and procurement processes with a view to reducing Scope 3 C02 emissions and avoiding waste through demand-based ordering, among other things. This is our contribution to a better and climate-friendly future – if not now, then when!
