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Healthcare information systems take a high priority in the daily routine of health service providers. They ensure that patient-related data are in the right shape at the right place and at the right time. However, healthcare is changing today. Outstanding diagnostic and treatment methodologies, better quality, high safety measures patient empowerment leads to that what is today understood as value based medicine. Research in the field of health it is rapidly growing and show immense progress in the field of health information exchange, cooperative care support, research data platforms, electronic decision support, population health management and artificial intelligence.

However, healthcare is getting more and more expensive. Quality and outcome heavily depend on the availability of medical specialists, which leads to serious regional imbalances in countries and continents. Despite of common availability of modern health information exchange technologies, legislation and remuneration models only rarely support cooperation between stakeholders today. Modern technological IT trends have found their way into the healthcare system only sparsely and with great delay. However, IT – when used correctly – can be of great benefit to patients and their practitioners, especially in the healthcare sector.