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Why the medical history is the blind spot in digitalising the surgical process
In many hospitals, patient education and consent are already digital, but the medical history is still taken on paper. In the pre-anaesthesia clinic in particular, this leads to follow-up questions, media discontinuities and delays in the OR schedule; it also removes the basis for individualised patient education. An end-to-end pre-admission process therefore begins with a structured digital medical history at home, whose data flows on into the HIS and into patient education.
October 15, 2026 · 9 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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From medical history to patient education: how an end-to-end digital process gives physicians more time for the patients who really need it
In the conventional pre-admission pathway, all patients go through the same steps up to the face-to-face discussion – regardless of need. A structured digital medical history allows patients to be grouped by risk: low-risk patients are fully prepared digitally, while patients with a complex history receive more time in the discussion. The risk classification prepares the physician's assessment; the decision is made by the physician.
October 15, 2026 · 8 min read
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Preoperative admission process: where physician time is lost — and how that is changing
In the preoperative admission process, physician time is lost at three points: before the appointment through incomplete medical history forms, in the consent discussion through standard content repeated every day, and afterwards through media discontinuities in consent and HIS handover. In a prospective study at University Hospital Würzburg, median physician discussion time before cholecystectomy fell by 81% with video-assisted patient education; understanding and satisfaction remained high. The greatest effect comes from a process planned digitally from end to end.
June 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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How modern patient education with video solutions noticeably relieves everyday hospital practice
Paper-based patient education creates media discontinuities, duplicated effort and uncertainty among patients. Digital systems only solve this if they do more than digitise forms: video-based, individually compiled patient education improves comprehensibility, documents the process and relieves physicians, who can concentrate on individual questions in the discussion.
December 16, 2025 · 5 min read

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Why the medical history is the blind spot in digitalising the surgical process

Smart medical history: how it differs from a digital questionnaire

From medical history to patient education: how an end-to-end digital process gives physicians more time for the patients who really need it

Preoperative admission process: where physician time is lost — and how that is changing

How modern patient education with video solutions noticeably relieves everyday hospital practice

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