Patient-centred medication management: How to enhance patient safety and reduce the work burden for medical staff by digitalised closed-loop cabinets

Author's Biography

Maximilian C. Von Eiff Dr med. Maximilian C. von Eiff, Assistant Physician Urology, studied human medicine at the University of Pécs Hungary (dr med in neurology) and completed a doctorate in orthopaedics and traumatology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main research areas are digitalisation in healthcare, health technology assessment, cost-benefit analyses of clinical processes and the impact of the healing environment approach on medical quality, patient outcome, length of stay and costs. Dr Maximilian completed a Six Sigma Training and worked on different studies aiming at process optimisation and quality improvement.

Wilfried Von Eiff Univ.-Prof. Dr Wilfried von Eiff (Münster) is Professor of Health Care Management and Regulation at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Director of the Center for Hospital Management, a research institute linked to the University of Muenster (Germany). Both institutions are well known for their international and national research, consulting and government advisory activities in various fields of healthcare and hospital management as well as health service research. Dr Wilfried’s research focuses on the international benchmarking of hospitals and healthcare systems. He holds two doctoral degrees, one from the faculty of medicine (University of Gießen) and the other from the faculty of business administration (University of Tübingen). In the clinical field he works as a member of the board of directors of Kerckhoff Clinic Heart and Lung Center, Bad Nauheim (Germany). Dr Wilfried chairs the special interest group on international best practices and process optimisation, an initiative of the EHMA European Health Management Association (Brussels). He was previously managing director and member of the board of the University Clinic of Giessen. He is co-editor of International Best Practices in Health Care Management (Emerald Books 2015) and Boundaryless Hospital (Springer 2016).

Mohamed Ghanem Priv-Doz Dr med Mohamed Ghanem, MBA (Leipzig, Germany), is Senior Consultant of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department for Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Plastic Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Leipzig. Dr Mohamed graduated from the Medical School of Cairo University and went on to do his postgraduate studies and practice at the University hospital of Paris as well as at the University hospital of Leipzig. He completed his studies in business administration at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2010 and later continued his scientific contributions at the HHL Graduate School of Management as visiting lecturer for international healthcare management.