AI check for hospitals

Who has which bed today is often on a printout at the nurses' station and tracked by phone. If paperwork is missing at a planned admission, it only becomes apparent once the patient has arrived, and the ward loses half an hour that appears nowhere. In the audit for Hospitals this is a dedicated area: you answer questions taken from your everyday work, and the result shows where automation can realistically help here.

Besides the Admission and Bed Management area, it covers Documentation and Coding, Discharge Management and Handover of Care and Staffing, Rostering and Absence Cover, among others. In total the audit spans 16 areas from the configuration for Hospitals – services you do not offer are skipped by the questionnaire.

Yes. Your maturity score is set against the average of the audits already completed in the same sector. As long as too few audits are available for that, the result shows a neutral reference value and labels it explicitly as such, no invented sector statistics.

For hospitals providing basic and standard general care, specialist hospitals, hospitals staffed by visiting consultants, day hospitals and partial inpatient facilities, rehabilitation hospitals and private hospitals: under public, not-for-profit or private ownership, independently managed or within a group.

No, explicitly not. Only organisational, administrative and communication processes are assessed. The check makes no statement about medical or nursing performance, about quality of care, about clinical indication, about an individual length of stay or about treatment outcomes. Nor may any recommendation suggest assessing clinical urgency, prioritising patients or evaluating results.

No, both are excluded. The subject is solely waiting time, duplicated work and friction with no medical justification, a missing letter, for example, or transport that was never booked. On coding, the check looks only at the completeness and accuracy of documentation as its basis. Every recommendation additionally states that time with patients stays the same or increases.

No. The questionnaire collects only information about your facility's processes, structures and systems: no patient data, no results, no cases. Recommendations that would touch patient data state explicitly in the report which data would be affected, which requirements on data protection, medical confidentiality and information security follow from that, and that the data protection officer, information security and staff representation have to be involved.

16 organisational areas along the patient pathway: admission and bed management, emergency department, theatre scheduling, ward organisation, diagnostics and results, documentation and coding, discharge management, billing and payer audits, rostering, supplies, support services, quality management, communication with referrers, key figures, hospital IT, and AI use and automation.

No. The questionnaire follows your facility's profile. Without an emergency department the questions on emergency flow drop out entirely, without your own theatres those on theatre scheduling, without rehabilitation services those on therapy scheduling, and with outsourced support services those on your own kitchen. No facility should have to answer a question about something it does not have.

Around ten minutes for a day hospital with one specialty, somewhat longer for a general hospital with an emergency department and several theatres. The facility profile is captured first; after that the number of questions follows size and range of services. Wherever a figure is asked for, the answer "I don't know" is always available. It does not worsen the result.

No, and the report may not present it that way either. Staff shortage is the defining bottleneck in this sector. Automation is shown solely as relief for the people already there: less searching, less duplicate data entry, less work after the shift ends. The check makes no statement about staffing requirements or whether they are met.

No, that is explicitly not permitted for this sector. Reimbursement is case-based and regulated; additional cases do not arise from time gained. What may be quantified is saved working time, reduced overtime, avoided additional administrative posts and. Only where the figures were actually collected: the avoidable share of reductions in payer audits and unused capacity, the latter explicitly as capacity and not as revenue.

The check is tailored to small and mid-sized facilities. From around 400 beds the result explicitly points out that a single report is not the right route there: IT, procurement, data protection, information security and staff representation are involved, and implementation belongs in a supported programme. The findings remain usable as a starting point. For everything beyond that there is the enterprise conversation.

The quick check with AI maturity score, benchmark and the three most important fields of action is free. The full report covering all 16 areas, with an economic assessment whose assumptions are disclosed and a prioritised roadmap, costs 149 EUR. No registration is needed; an email address is only required so the result can be sent to you.