Digital value chains create economy and added value

A fast reaction and secure information is indispensable, particularly in the medical field. Patient data can for example be used nowadays unequally more efficiently as well as processed with the help of IT. An important factor is thereby also the mobile availability, for example with patient visits.

Several Austrian hospitals now rely on flexible multifunctional work stations, which were developed by Kapsch BusinessCom especially for the hospital and health field and which shall bring facilitations for medical personnel and carers in the daily routine of hospital, which is often hectic.

The clinical risk management
These mobile care assistants enable for example paperless visits and management objects and a video function is additionally integrated. Medical specialists can thereby bring in their knowledge without having to be present physically or also interpretors for patient information regarding further treatment steps, both essential for the clinical risk management.
An electronically secured issue of medication is also included as well as the networking of existing IT systems and thereby also the immediate digital further processing of patient files and procedures. “Resources can be applied better with the mobile care assistant, the care quality can be improved and the work and cost pressure can be reduced in parallel”, says Claudia Putz, business development manager at Kapsch BusinessCom.

Difficult overview
The progressing digitisation does however not only affect the health sector, the transformation affects companies of any size and all industries. The primary focus is thereby on the digital linking of processes alongside the business value chain and diverse business platforms also support companies with selection and realisation.
With the abundance of new technologies it is however difficult to maintain the overview, and this applies particularly to trans-sectoral application areas such as solutions. “Businesses want to reconcile different cloud solutions, but also infrastructures and digital concepts such as Big Data, mobility or the Internet-of-Things” explains for example Wilhelm Petersmann, Vice President and Managing Director Austria & Switzerland at Fujitsu.

Open system
Experts such as Petersmann advise flexible solutions for industrial companies and medium businesses, which enable existing systems as well as new services and thereby also ensure the cooperation with several providers. In this connection, Fujitsu relies for example on the digital business platform MetaArc, which enable the management of existing IT structures (Robust-IT) as well as the use of new solutions (Fast-IT), for example in the area Big Data or cloud services.
“MetaArc is additionally not a closed system, solutions of different providers can also be integrated therewith”, says Petersmann additionally.