The “Hospital Transparency Act” got here into drive in March 2024. It is the premise of the “Federal Hospital Atlas”, which was put on-line immediately and which was closely criticized prematurely by the hospital affiliation, for instance. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had nice phrases about this:
“With the Federal Hospital Atlas, we provide sufferers a transparent information via the hospital jungle in Germany. With just some clicks you’ll be able to examine clinics and discover the perfect clinic in your space for the therapy you want. Comprehensible details about good hospital care is due to this fact accessible to everybody and is now not simply the privilege of some. The Federal Hospital Atlas makes our inpatient care extra socially honest and supplies essential preparatory work for the upcoming hospital reform. Its transparency is a part of our high quality offensive.”
What can you discover within the “Federal Hospital Atlas”? For instance, in case you are searching for a clinic to deal with a stroke within the Dachau area, you’ll first see this choice menu:
If you then take the primary choice, stroke brought on by blocking a blood vessel within the mind, you get this supply:
61,223 instances of therapy on the Augsburg University Hospital – these can’t be strokes. The hits will be sorted in keeping with the variety of therapy instances, the identify of the clinic or the space. You also can filter in keeping with numerous standards, reminiscent of accessibility or help from interpreter providers.
If it is about melancholy, the beginning window seems to be like this:
The choices are more likely to elevate much more questions than with stroke. If you now choose the depressive episode, then this info comes up:
Unfortunately you’ll be able to’t do something with that. When sorting by therapy instances, why is an Augsburg clinic on the high with 8 instances and why are these 8 instances declared as “many”? The psychiatric clinics within the area ought to really be on the high right here. If you enter “suicidal tendencies” as a sign, you get equally erratic outcomes. Something does not appear sensible but.
You can then take a better take a look at particular person clinics and discover out, for instance, that along with 1,361 beds, the Augsburg University Hospital additionally has 36 day-care therapy locations, has 23 specialist departments and, for instance, 4,342 therapies have been carried out in neurology, most likely final 12 months, that is not there.
This supply will definitely assist with some info wants, however clearly not with others. It shouldn’t be significantly user-friendly, particularly for individuals who have problem on-line and for individuals with out good data of German. For some indications you additionally want a health care provider at your facet to make an appropriate choice. But that will surely be useful anyway when you needed a hospital place.
There isn’t any synthetic intelligence or different sensible help features when looking for info. You need to manually click on via the choice menus supplied.
The information accessible can be nonetheless restricted. According to the Atlas web page, information on therapy high quality will most likely be built-in in October 2024. In this respect, you must maybe see the supply activated immediately as a trial operation and wait to see the way it develops additional. Perhaps the BMG would have been higher off ready slightly longer earlier than activating it.