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German hospitals are increasingly being asked to improve efficiency while striving to enhancethe quality of standards that will afford a high level of patient safety and quality in thetreatment process. The main objective of this Ph.D. thesis was to analyze whether digitalsupport software used during surgery has a positive effect on selected clinical process andquality ratios in orthopedics. Two retrospective case-control studies of 383 hip jointendoprosthetic implantations and 297 knee joint endoprosthetic implantations wereconducted at a German hospital between 2015 and 2020. Statistically significant results wereevaluated commercially within the framework of the German diagnosis-related groups.Results show that the use of digitally assisted surgery leads to significantly shorter hospitalstays and reduces postoperative complications, which in turn has a direct impact on treatmentcosts and hospital revenues.
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Benjamin Lahmann, Ph.D. is a registered male nurse and holds a doctorate in Business Management and Economics. He is considered to be an expert in the German healthcare sector and focuses on digital process standardization along the clinical pathway, digitally assisted surgery and the evaluation of performance and quality ratios in hospitals. For the past nine years, he has been working for the medical technology and pharmaceutical corporate group Johnson & Johnson Medical, where he currently leads a sales unit as Regional Business Manager.
