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The Medical Strategy and Networking staff unit reports to the Chief Medical Director and Chairman of the Executive Board. It supports the hospital's Executive Board in the development and implementation of qualitative and quantitative medical corporate goals, promotes organizational development and manages overarching transformation processes.

The staff unit is committed to the fundamental pillars of university medicine: teaching and research. As part of its scientific work, the unit examines and analyzes current health policy and care-relevant topics with regard to their health economic implications, combined with the aim of an empirically based medical strategic development of the University Hospital and the health region. The results of the studies are regularly published and presented in other formats, e.g. specialist conferences or political committees. In addition, the employees of the staff unit are actively involved in teaching and supervising students. These formats include internships as well as doctoral, Bachelor's and Master's theses.

The establishment of a hospital-wide project portfolio management and multi-project management structures for strategic topics such as outpatient care and the digitalization of medical processes are managed by the staff unit. The staff unit coordinates the involvement of internal and external medical service providers in the strategy development process. In consultation with the departments involved, the staff unit drafts agreements for medical cooperation with domestic service providers, associations, companies and other institutions.

In this way, it shapes the role of the University Medical Center Freiburg in (supra-)regional healthcare provision through intelligent, needs-based strategic networking, taking current and future developments into account.

At a glance: The tasks of the Medical Strategy and Networking department can be assigned to five subject areas:

Medical strategy:

• Development of a medical strategy for the University Medical Center Freiburg as well as planning and coordination of complex medical and organizational-structural projects.
• Supporting the hospital board in the development and implementation of qualitative and quantitative corporate goals.
• Participation in joint structural and development planning in cooperation with the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg.

Strategic networking:

• Needs-based strategic networking with external medical service providers.
• Strengthening the role of the University Medical Center Freiburg in ensuring high-quality healthcare for the region.
• Implementation of new forms of cross-sector and cross-location cooperation under the leadership of the University Medical Center Freiburg (model regions, cross-institutional focus and network formation, new forms of care and more).

Cooperation management

• Domestic cooperation with medical service providers.
• Medical cooperation with clubs, (sports) associations, companies and facilities that aim to provide medical services.
• Medical cooperations with industrial and commercial enterprises.

Project portfolio management

• Establishment of an overarching, software-based project portfolio structure for controlling, monitoring and evaluating strategic projects in line with the corporate strategy.
• Analysis of dependencies and synergies between projects, controlling and evaluation of the portfolio as well as the further development of project portfolio structures and processes.
• Increasing project and project portfolio expertise at the university hospital.

Digitalization of clinical processes

• Continuous identification of fields of action as part of the digital transformation of medical processes at the University Medical Center Freiburg.
• Strategic planning, prioritization and coordination of digital focus projects for the innovative further development and continuous optimization of clinical processes and structures.
• Promoting the exchange and flow of information between stakeholders for the goal-oriented implementation of the various digitalization projects.
• Scouting digital innovations in the healthcare sector and assessing their relevance for the University Medical Center Freiburg.