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4d ago

Warken Moves to End Bundes-Klinik-Atlas After Project Team Is Dissolved

The step follows sustained criticism over incomplete data, poor usability.

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Nina Warken (CDU), Bundesministerin für Gesundheit
Bundesgesundheitsministerin Nina Warken (CDU) bereitet einem Medienbericht zufolge die Einstellung des "Bundes-Klinik-Atlas" vor, den ihr Vorgänger Karl Lauterbach (SPD) als wesentliches Projekt seiner Amtszeit eingeführt hatte.

Overview

  • The Health Ministry ordered the Bundes-Klinik-Atlas project group dissolved retroactive to June 30, according to an organizational directive reported by RND.
  • Introduced in mid-May last year by then minister Karl Lauterbach, the atlas was intended to give comprehensive insight into services and treatment quality at roughly 1,700 hospitals.
  • Following heavy pushback from medical societies, hospital operators and patient representatives, the platform was pared back to information on about 25 procedures that are not among the most common treatments.
  • The German Hospital Federation (DKG) proposed reinstating its long-running Deutsches Krankenhausverzeichnis on federal websites, returning to the setup in place until April 2024.
  • DKG cited 600,000 monthly visits for its directory versus 200,000 for the atlas and estimated annual costs of about €1.5 million for the atlas compared with €120,000 in support for the DKG system.