Digital transformation at the university hospital - Münster, Germany shows the way!

As referral hospitals, university hospitals mostly act as links between outpatient and clinical patient care. This implies that they have a large volume of patient contacts. In this context, they are regarded as competence centers where particularly challenging clinical pictures are treated. Due to the large number of external referring physicians, optimal communication between university hospitals, patients and referring physicians is also necessary. In addition, university hospitals still have to fulfill a teaching and research mandate, which presents them with major challenges. Lea Holtrup and Nicole Eter, MD, PhD, describe how the digital transformation of ophthalmology can help in an overview article on digitization projects at Münster University Eye Hospital.