Like all industries, the healthcare sector faces the challenge of becoming ever more efficient while maintaining or even improving quality.

As human lives are at stake, mistakes here usually have more serious consequences than in other areas.

Digitalization has long since found its way into the healthcare sector and is changing many processes that used to be time-consuming and labour-intensive; here too, shared service centers are being set up and services are being networked. Although the digital patient file has not yet become established, there are promising approaches. Artificial intelligence has found its way into the field of imaging procedures in order to speed up the detection of diseases.

The high cost pressure in the field of medicine and the strong regulation in the areas of medical technology and pharmaceuticals make high performance in this sector a necessity. Demographic change is having a strong impact on the healthcare sector, doctors and nurses have been recruited globally for some time now and the demand for geriatric care will continue to rise in the coming years.