Making The Smart Hospital A Reality

Prof. Dr. Mathias Goyen is Chief Medical Officer Europe at GE Healthcare.

Medicine is undergoing a double paradigm shift, the transition to molecular medicine and digitization itself. Digitization in hospitals is not an end in itself, but serves to optimize processes and to improve the quality of patient care.

A Smart Hospital relies on optimized and automated processes aimed at improving existing patient care procedures and introducing new capabilities. It relies on the big data revolution – the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ – which combines connected devices with cloud computing, big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) – to ensure that the critical infrastructure is ‘smart’.

The overarching objective of a Smart Hospital is that patients will experience...