Successful transformation of healthcare depends on the availability of data
Successful healthcare transformation depends on robust data platforms that enable reform and support the practical use of AI in clinical care.
Solutions / Hospitals
HIP for hospitals
Digitalisation for hospitals without vendor dependency
As a hospital, use the potential of your health data.
Set the stage now for a future where you have full control over the data in your hospital.
vitagroup’s Health Intelligence Platform (HIP) is a central data storage platform that separates your data from applications. It enables you to use your data in all systems – regardless of vendor – without the need for conversion. Create the optimal conditions for the digital transformation of your hospital with HIP .
Key features at a glance
Enjoy vendor independency
HIP stores data separately from applications. Easily replace your solutions as needed and integrate best-of-breed applications.
Ensure central data availability
Deliver the data needed for all solutions and use cases — existing and new — without additional, complex interfaces.
Gain flexibility
New policy and technology challenges are a constant. With HIP, you can react flexibly and cost-effectively to anything that comes your way.
Comply with legal requirements
Ensure you meet all interoperability requirements. HIP allows you to easily comply with international technical, syntactic, and semantic standards.
Reduce interface costs
Why persist with interfaces that are very costly to maintain? With a central, interoperable data repository, you can finally say goodbye to this problem.
Improve quality
To produce reliable analysis results, and thereby control and improve the quality of your medical processes, a standardised database is a must.
Eligible for subsidies covering up to 100% of costs under the KHZG
With our HIP, you are ideally prepared to meet all interoperability requirements and provisions contained in the German Hospital Future Act (KHZG) and internationally recognised norms. In addition, you can comply directly with stipulations in respect of, for example, the ISiK hospital information system standard, telematics infrastructure connection, and Health IT Interoperability Governance Ordinance, while creating the perfect conditions for all future digitalisation projects.
Health Intelligence Platform in action
These hospitals have already opted for our HIP
St. Antonius Krankenhaus
The St. Antonius Hospital in Cologne was one of the first institutions of its kind in Germany to take the next step in digitalisation as early as March 2023. The hospital is using vitagroup’s HIP to store health data centrally—regardless of vendor or system.
Kreiskliniken Dillingen Wertingen
The Dillingen and Wertingen regional hospitals are using HIP to create interoperable, complete, and quality-assured patient records for improved and more efficient patient care.
Marienhaus
The Marienhaus Group opted for HIP in April 2023. The group of companies includes 15 hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland.
RUB
In order to strengthen its research and teaching activities locally, nationally, and internationally, the University Hospitals of the Ruhr University of Bochum syndicate set itself the goal of building medical research data infrastructure that will enable straightforward data sharing in accordance with privacy laws. The HIP is the backbone of this project.
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Your benefits at a glance
Finally gain the ability to innovate.
Flexible. Cost-effective. Forward-looking.
Finally enjoy the benefits of digitalisation.
Vendor-independent. Highly structured. Interoperable.
Finally have access to your data.
All the time. Easily. Efficiently.
Finally build your digital ecosystem.
Controlled. Future-proof. Designed to last.
In the future, HIP will be the backbone of all projects under our digitalisation strategy. We plan to store our data primarily in the HIP so that it will be available to all other systems as needed. Ultimately, we will gain complete data sovereignty and make ourselves independent of individual vendors, especially in the area of HIS applications.
Timur Kaya
Head of the Digitalisation & IT Department, Dillingen-Wertingen regional hospitals
Thanks to the vendor-independent, highly structured central data storage, we can now centrally access health information from different systems and select and integrate new digital solutions as needed. (…) With the HIP, our clinical staff always have all the important data from different systems at their disposal.
Ralf Schmandt
Commercial & IT Director, St. Antonius Hospital in Cologne
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The benefits for your hospital of the future
Innovate in all your digitalisation projects
Flexible. Cost-effective. Forward-looking.
Thanks to the open, highly structured, and standardised data storage, you finally have the power to act in your digitalisation projects for your KHZG implementations and all other future undertakings. HIP gives you the flexibility to meet all requirements cost-effectively. The interoperable, open data storage allows you to design processes to work across systems for a flexible, cost-effective, and forward-looking approach. Your patients are sure to appreciate the continuous improvements to your digital services.
Harness the potential for digitalisation in your hospital
Vendor-independent. Highly structured. Interoperable.
There are already thousands of ways in which digitalisation can improve healthcare, and every day there are more. But all of them require the availability of high-quality structured health data. Without this, you simply do not have the building blocks needed for clinical decision support, artificial intelligence in diagnostics, and process automation. With HIP, you can take advantage of highly structured data and use technologies that will bring about a lasting improvement in your healthcare delivery.
Optimise data availability across systems
All the time. Easily. Efficiently.
HIP increases the availability and usability of your health data so that your staff have access to all relevant information at any time — regardless of vendor or system. This lightens the load for your hospital’s care staff, managers, and IT department, to the benefit of your patients.
The foundation for your digital ecosystem
Controlled. Future-proof. Designed to last.
HIP easily integrates into your existing system landscape. Based on open standards and interfaces, it serves as the foundation for all current and future processes and applications in your digital ecosystem. The HIP itself is also vendor-independent thanks to its standard technologies and open-source core. Change is a constant — whether in terms of policy, technology, or strategy. Our solution grows with you, so that you can respond flexibly and as needs dictate at all times.
Rely on a strong partner
Experienced. Stable. Fair.
The vitagroup team — from interoperability experts and developers through to privacy professionals and medical practitioners — can manage joint projects and be there when you need assistance. With over 25 years of experience, we are always at your side as a reliable partner. Benefit from our expertise and straightforward approach. And with us, you enjoy an additional advantage: the core of our solution is open source. Which means you need never be dependent on a software vendor again.
It’s time we talked
Let’s explore your opportunities together.
Build solid foundations now for your hospital of the future – with our HIP.
Joachim Neugebauer
Vice President Clinical Care Solutions
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News & insights
12 hospitals in Saarland set up patient portal based on vitagroup HIP
From the end of 2025, patients of 12 hospitals in the German state of Saarland will be able to virtually exchange data and information with their hospital via a joint patient portal. The patient portal is provided by our partner PLANFOX and is based on vitagroup’s Health Intelligence Platform.
Alle Patientendaten sicher an einem Ort
St. Antonius Krankenhaus Köln startet Initiative zur herstellerunabhängigen Digitalisierung mit der HIP der vitagroup.
Ratgeber: Erfolgreiche Digitalisierung im Krankenhaus
Mit den Milliarden aus dem Krankenhauszukunftsgesetz (KHZG) sollen Krankenhäuser in Deutschland digital aufholen. Bedarf gibt es vor allem bei digitaler Dokumentation und Patientenservices. Doch wie gelingt die erfolgreiche Digitalisierung im deutschen Krankenhaus und wie lassen sich die Muss-Kriterien des KHZGs fristgerecht umsetzen? Hier finden Sie essenzielle Tipps.
vitagroup verzeichnet stark steigende Nachfrage
Als Vorreiter für die herstellerunabhängige Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen begleitet die vitagroup derzeit mehrere deutsche und internationale zukunftsweisende Projekte. Die immer weiter steigende Nachfrage nach der Technologie und dem Know-how der vitagroup zeigt: Immer mehr KundInnen befreien sich aus der Herstellerabhängigkeit.
Zukunftsprogramm Krankenhäuser startet
Die große Koalition hat das Krankenhauszukunftsgesetz beschlossen. Mit insgesamt 4,3 Milliarden Euro werden ab 2021 Digitalisierungsprojekte für Krankenhäuser gefördert.