Stakeholder-Analysis of the effects on the health care system in terms of digitization and introduction of the e-prescription in Germany

Abstract

The Digitalization influences all areas of life and is more important than ever. A change in the health sector is also becoming overdue since years. The Federal Ministry of Health in Germany has recognized this and as a result, the health sector is currently experiencing new horizons into an even more digitalized future through progressive developments in e-health, e.g. by abolishing the paper prescription and introducing the e-prescription in Germany. The presented methodological SWOT analysis of such an e-health application, using the example of the e-prescription, is intended to illuminate the effects on key stakeholders in the healthcare system within the framework of a 360-degree evaluation from a technical and organizational perspective.