Mona Ciotta

Mona Ciotta is Managing Director (COO) of medudoc and is responsible for operations, delivery and the medical content of the platform.

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  Frailty and preoperative anaemia: why the pre-anaesthesia clinic should start earlier

  Current German S3 guidelines on frailty and preoperative anaemia shift the focus to individual preparation before surgery. For pre-anaesthesia clinics, this raises a concrete question: are relevant information and findings available in time to organise the necessary steps before the procedure?

  November 4, 2026 · 7 min read
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  Overview of providers of patient education solutions in the DACH region

  The market for digital patient education in the DACH region consists of two groups: providers with their own patient education content, and manufacturers of hospital information systems (HIS) and practice management systems (PMS) that integrate patient education modules and often use content from specialised providers for this. The overview sets out the providers side by side with their focus areas in content, medical history and workflow.

  October 17, 2026 · 14 min read
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  Smart medical history: how it differs from a digital questionnaire

  A digital questionnaire only changes the medium: instead of paper, patients fill in a form on a device. A smart medical history asks adaptive follow-up questions, checks the information for completeness and prepares it in structured form for the physician's assessment. Its added value only materialises when the data are reused in the workflow – for patient education, consent and the HIS. It is not a medical device and replaces neither the physician's judgement nor the discussion with the physician.

  October 15, 2026 · 6 min read
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  Checking drug allergies and cross-allergies in the digital medical history

  “Penicillin allergy” is one of the most frequent entries in the preoperative medical history – and one of the least precise. Without more detailed information on the type of reaction, time course and organ system affected, it is impossible to judge whether an allergy is actually present or whether certain alternative drugs can be considered. A structured digital allergy history can ask specifically for exactly the information that makes a reliable classification possible in the first place.

  October 15, 2026 · 5 min read
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  One video instead of two appointments – combined vs. separate patient education for anaesthesia and surgery

  When a procedure requires both surgical and anaesthetic patient education, hospitals face an organisational question: are both combined in a single appointment or video, or do they remain two separate processes, each with its own signature? Both models are established in practice, and both can be justified clinically – the decision is not purely technical but concerns the allocation of responsibility between the specialties.

  September 21, 2026 · 5 min read