
The virtual hospital announcement follows Laumann’s comment in an interview in July that he would support mergers and closures of community hospitals and clinics throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.

NRW’s plan for a virtual hospital is being promoted by state health minister Karl-Josef Laumann, a member of the centre-right CDU Party.

Examples include the Mercy Virtual Care Center in Chesterfield, Minnesota the St Luke’s Virtual Care Center in Boise, Idaho and Intermountain Connect Care Pro Center in Utah. They also have direct links to patient monitors and imaging systems in the hospitals and clinics they support.Īn emerging trend, most virtual hospitals can be found in America’s mid-West. They are equipped with specialist clinical decision and knowledge management systems. It sits in the west of the country, and includes former federal capital Bonn as well as Cologne, Essen and state capital Düsseldorf.Ī virtual hospital brings together clinical specialists in a call centre environment. NRW is Germany’s most populous state and one of its richest and most industrialised.
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The state’s health ministry intends that the new virtual hospital will help modernise and upgrade hospitals across the state. The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has announced plans to create a virtual hospital.
