This book serves as a comprehensive guide for hospitals embarking on a digital maturity journey, offering actionable insights, best practices, and lessons learned from healthcare leaders worldwide. It brings together contributions from over 50 world-renowned digital health experts, providing hospitals with the tools and strategies needed to successfully drive digital transformation to benefit both healthcare workers and patients.
Covering a broad range of topics, the chapters delve into critical dimensions of hospital digitalization, including digital maturity models, IT capability, interoperability, governance, patient-centered care, and advanced data analytics. Readers will find real-world case studies showcasing hospitals and governmental initiatives that have achieved externally validated success in their digital transformation efforts.
As emphasized in the Foreword written by the President of the International Diabetes Federation, the book highlights the impact of digital maturity on patient care and explores forward-looking trends that will shape the future of healthcare digitalization, such as green IT, ethical considerations, social determinants of health, and workforce development.
Whether you are a healthcare leader, policy maker, or practitioner, this book offers valuable guidance and strategic insights to help you navigate your organization’s digital maturity journey and drive excellence in healthcare delivery.
Armin Scheuer is a senior executive, entrepreneur and thought leader in digital health, specializing in advancing digital maturity in healthcare systems. He is the CEO & Founder of Lemonmint, a growth consultancy that empowers organizations to accelerate digital health transformation. As Vice President and Executive Director EMEA for HIMSS, Armin spearheaded digital health initiatives across Europe and the Middle East, including the world's largest digital maturity assessment of Germany's hospital sector. In his career spanning more than 15 years, he also founded Europe's first eHealth Communications firm and worked with leading technology firms to drive innovation in healthcare.
Jörg Studzinski is a recognized thought leader in digital health development, analytics, and maturity assessment. He is a member of the German government's Interoperability Council - a think tank dedicated to developing the national agenda for health data exchange and the use of standards in Germany. In July 2024, he joined the University Hospital of Leipzig as Head of IT Project Management. Previously, he supported the digital transformation of the Agaplesion hospital system. As Director of Research and Advisory Services at HIMSS, he has supported and validated dozens of the world's digitally leading hospitals and government agencies on their health transformation journeys. This includes leading the development of the DigitalRadar maturity model and assessment methodology, the largest assessment of hospital digital maturity to date.
