Assessing the Relationship between Hospital Process Digitalization and Hospital Quality - Evidence from Germany.

Hospital digitalization aims to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and/ or improve quality of care. To assess a digitalization-quality relationship, we investigate the association between process digitalization and process and outcome quality. We use data from the German DigitalRadar (DR) project from 2021 and combine these data with two process (preoperative waiting time for osteosynthesis and hip replacement surgery after femur fracture, n = 516 and 574) and two outcome quality indicators (mortality ratio of patients hospitalized for outpatient-acquired pneumonia, n = 1,074; ratio of new decubitus cases, n = 1,519).

The association of hospital profitability and digital maturity - An explorative study using data from the German DigitalRadar project.

Introduction: German hospitals largely rely on public investments for digitization. As these have been insufficient, hospitals had to use own profits to foster digital transformation. Thus, we assess if profitability affects digital maturity, and what other factors might be influential.