Digitization in healthcare: BIV-OT President Alf Reuter at the Opta Data Future Day

Veröffentlicht: 09. März 2024, 15:20 Uhr

Von: NAG Redaktion

BIV-OT President Alf Reuter emphasized at the Opta Data Data Future Day 2024 in Essen that orthopedic technology has been driving digitization in healthcare for years. While digital tools such as scanners, modeling and printing technologies are already used in orthopedic workshops, the processes are shaped with the cost conveyors by still existing paper volume. The top association therefore takes the introduction of the EVERYONE for aids as an opportunity to digitize the processes from the regulation by the doctor to billing. The aim is that all orthopedic companies can accept and bill digital regulations for aids before the mandatory start on July 1, 2027.

The BIV-OT President sees the future of orthopedic technology. Demographic change and the increasing number of people with chronic and complex clinical pictures require more experts, while the cost bearers are financially under pressure. Reuter criticizes the bureaucracy and non -transparency in the system, which leads to time loss in the care of patients and to an increased shortage of skilled workers. The top association demands that the processes to be based on the goal of improving the lives of people with exposure to mobility and securing participation.

As part of the BIV-OT pilot project "Ever Ordinance for Orthopedic Aids", an overall process for the electronic regulation of orthopedic aid supply is designed and tested. In a first test phase, the process of a digital regulation of orthopedic aids is played through. The pilot project includes leading billing centers, software manufacturers and representatives of the medical profession. Patient steering via the regulation is excluded.

The future day of Opta Data on March 7, 2024 dealt with questions about the development of the health market by 2030 and the effects of telematics infrastructure and artificial intelligence on the German health system.

Appendix:

table with information about the participants in the pilot project “Ever regulation for
Orthopedic aids ”:

contact for the press:
Kirsten Abel, press spokeswoman for the Federal Guild Association for Orthopedic Technology,
Reinoldistr. 7-9, 44135 Dortmund, phone: 01715608125, email: kirsten.abel@biv-ot.org.

About the Federal Guild Association for Orthopedic Technology:
The Federal Guild Association for Orthopedic Technology (BIV-OT) is the top association, which represents over 4500 medical houses and orthopedic workshops with more than 45,000 employees in over 30 areas. Every year, more than 25 million aid supplies in Germany are responsible for the members of the association.

Imprint of the Federal Guild Association for Orthopedic Technology:
Reinoldistr. 7-9, 44135 Dortmund
Postfach 10 06 51, 44006 Dortmund
Tel.: 0231/557050-0, fax: 0231/557050-40
Email: info@biv-ot.org
Represented by: President Alf Reuter, Vice President Albin Mayer, Managing Director Diplom-Kaufmann Georg Blome
Legal form: Federal Guild Association as a legal person of private law according to § 85 Handwerk Regulations (HWO)
Responsible supervisory authority: Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Protection, 10115 Berlin, email: info@bmwi-bund.de
Ust-ID: DE124651675

Source: Federal Guild Association for orthopedic technology/ots