Digital maturity assessments: Lifting Germany onto the world stage
The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is considered to be Europe's first fully digitised hospital. By introducing a closed-loop medication process, UKE reduced the deviation rate in medication administration from 21.5% to 0.7%[1]. Cambridge University Hospital reported a similar story: automatic warning systems prevented 850 cases of severe allergic side effects per year. Sixteen percent of drug prescriptions have been adjusted as a result.
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