nursIT Editorial Team
"Planning no longer thinks in terms of buildings, but in terms of care regions." With this succinct statement, Carsten Schmid, Head of Sales at NursIT Institute GmbH, summed up the essence of the seventh smartXcare TechTalk. Under the title"Regional care concepts of tomorrow " , experts from the healthcare industry, hospital management and technology discussed what the patient-centered care of the future could look like on 26 November 2025 - beyond traditional structures and isolated sectors.
From hospital to regional care network
Instead of outdated thinking in terms of buildings and responsibilities, the TechTalk was dominated by new perspectives: How can care take place where it is needed - whether in hospitals, outpatient clinics or in people's own homes?
Prof. Heinz Lohmann opened the discussion with the thesis that the healthcare sector could learn a lot from the retail sector and platform models such as Amazon: user centricity, clear processes, intelligent data integration. Building on this,Dr. Nicolas Krämer and Prof. Dr. Lars Timm from HC&S AG emphasized thatLevel 1i clinics and theHospital Transformation Fund (KHTF) are more than just political buzzwords. Rather, they form the basis for making regional care sustainable, economically viable and patient-oriented.
Hospital@Home and interoperability as building blocks
Georgina Krüger, CEO ofHospital at Home Deutschland e.V., showed that modern care can also take place at home - with high quality, digitally supported and seamlessly networked with medical structures.
Heiko Mania, Managing Director of the NursIT Institute, supplemented this idea with a technical foundation: only with open, standardizedFHIR®-based platform architectures can truly cross-sector healthcare be realized.
The new narrative: Polyclinic 2.0
In his conclusion, Carsten Schmid pleaded for a new, bolder narrative: away from alarmist debates about "dying hospitals" and towards a"polyclinic 2.0 " - a modern healthcare hub with clear regional responsibility.
Courage, pragmatic solutions and local political steadfastness are needed to shape change. After all, people, medicine and technology have long since changed - now the system must follow suit.
Compass for the transformation
smartXcare TechTalk #07 left the participants with the impression that the German healthcare system is not at the end, but at the beginning of a new era of regional care. However, the prerequisite for this is that players finally think - and act - in a networked way.
If you missed the webinar, you can watch the full recording here: