ROHRBACH-BERG.Progressing digitization, future technologies, artificial intelligence: The health system also has to face new challenges in order to remain sustainable. The changeover of the IT system is currently being prepared at the Rohrbach Clinic.
After the OÖG hospitals in Schärding and Freistadt, a new hospital information system, called KIS for short, will also be introduced in Rohrbach in October. “This is logistically an enormous challenge because all the data is stored here. The IT system is the heart of a hospital,” says the medical director, Primar Kostja Steiner, of an “operation on the open heart. When we switch the switch to the new system, the old no longer works.”
All employees are now being trained for the new system. In the course of the changeover, a central dates of appointment (ZTV) will also be set up in the Rohrbach Clinic.
Technology will change medicine
The medical director is convinced that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) will change the health system. “AI makes sense when searching through existing patient data or for billing, it is already used here. It can be a support for findings – but nothing more,” says the head of the anesthesia and intensive care department department. He adds: “Our Upper Austria sponsoring company uses innovations in a targeted manner, coordinated and sensible. It is aware that future technologies will come, but you have to integrate them well.”
Steiner also thinks of the telephone health advice 1450: “This must be a real service, but Ki can do that too.” In combination with a telephoto doctor with whom you can make calls via video, in the long run a good solution. You just have to make sure that everything interlocks.
The 1450 check-in has already established itself in the Rohrbach hospital, which enables faster patient registration and better planning in the medical emergency room. If it turns out during the phone call that a hospital should be consulted, this is in advance about the patient’s arrival informed and the data already collected. The contributes to better patient steering.
Wide base with lighthouses
Since Primar Kostja Steiner took over the medical management of the Rohrbach Clinic a year ago, the strategy of the house has been revised. “We rely on an extremely wide base with emergency care around the clock. There are also lighthouses, for example in geriatric medicine, hernia surgery or oncology. And we have very good obstetrics on site that is very important to us. We do not offer everything, but we have at a very high level,” confirms the doctor.
He sees his hospital as part of a large network in the Upper Austria. Health care, including cooperation with the resident area, works very well. In the house itself, “everyone contributes to the fact that the work works. We have a good working atmosphere – everyone appreciates this and that’s why we also have a lot of influx of young doctors”, the medical director is happy about a “very well positioned, stable house.”
