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    Digitalization to Drive Quality

    6min
    Philipp Grätzel von Grätz
    Published on January 24, 2018

    “For about three years, every management conference has been about digitalization. It’s an ongoing issue for us.”

    Markus Horneber, MD, Chairman of AGAPLESION gAG, Frankfurt, Germany

    Digitalization as an ongoing issue

    Markus Horneber improves healthcare quality through an elaborate digitalization strategy.

    Focus on intersectoral care

    Markus Horneber, MD, Chairman of AGAPLESION gAG

    “Digitalization is not an end in itself. It’s about improving the quality of treatment and care."

    Markus Horneber, MD, Chairman of AGAPLESION gAG, Frankfurt, Germany

    Quality: Main driver of digitalization

    “We think we are seeing the emergence of a sort of separate digital medicine sector that cannot be classified within the existing sectors.”

    Markus Müschenich, MD, MPH, Managing Director, F.H. Incubator GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Future control of the healthcare system

    “If we want to survive, then quality is the way forward.”

    Markus Horneber, MD, Chairman of AGAPLESION gAG, Frankfurt, Germany
    By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz

    Philipp Grätzel von Grätz lebt und arbeitet als freiberuflicher Medizinjournalist in Berlin. Seine Spezialgebiete sind Digitalisierung, Technik und Herz-Kreislauf-Therapie.