To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate and up-to-the-minute identification of available ICU beds and ventilation capacity became a key control element.
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate and up-to-the-minute identification of available ICU beds and ventilation capacity became a key control element.
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate and up-to-the-minute identification of available ICU beds and ventilation capacity became a key control element. The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the German Association for Intensive Care Medicine (DIVI), commissioned PRODYNA to develop an intensive care registry to create a uniform picture of intensive care capacity nationwide.
WirtschaftsWoche annually calls on all consultancies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to have their most important and best client projects evaluated by a scientific advisory board and a jury; to award the best management consulting projects as part of the "Best of Consulting".
In this year's competition, PRODYNA once again prevailed in the category "Technologies" and were awarded first place. A provisional platform already existed for reporting intensive care bed occupancy, but it was not up to the challenges at hand, either professionally or technically. PRODYNA were tasked with solving the problem for RKI technology partner SAS. "We get called to fire calls with increasing regularity," says Jens Weimar, managing director at PRODYNA. "But a situation with the pressure and scope was a new experience for us as well. Only about 14 days later, in April 2021, the intensive care bed registry had to be ready."
"We had to implement a highly available and scalable system in the Cloud, in the shortest possible time to be able to process the enormous number of requests to the public area. At the same time, we had to ensure maximum reliability for reporting by the intensive care unit," explains Florian Aßmus. And as if the firefighting mission during implementation had not been enough, the PRODYNA consultants were still faced with the challenge of explaining the complicated regulation and use of the new solution to Germany's more than 1,500 intensive care hospitals directly with the live launch. "24 hours before the hospitals had to report their beds, we still had to set up a service hotline on the fly and brief the phone operators," says Timothy Simms.
CMO Jens Weimar draws a very positive conclusion overall: "We learned a lot about ourselves and that we can be incredibly fast and still be professional. That only comes with many years of learned expertise." Please click here for further information on the project. Images from the awards ceremony can be found here.
WirtschaftsWoche annually calls on all consultancies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to have their most important and best client projects evaluated by a scientific advisory board and a jury; to award the best management consulting projects as part of the "Best of Consulting".
In this year's competition, PRODYNA once again prevailed in the category "Technologies" and were awarded first place. A provisional platform already existed for reporting intensive care bed occupancy, but it was not up to the challenges at hand, either professionally or technically. PRODYNA were tasked with solving the problem for RKI technology partner SAS. "We get called to fire calls with increasing regularity," says Jens Weimar, managing director at PRODYNA. "But a situation with the pressure and scope was a new experience for us as well. Only about 14 days later, in April 2021, the intensive care bed registry had to be ready."
"We had to implement a highly available and scalable system in the Cloud, in the shortest possible time to be able to process the enormous number of requests to the public area. At the same time, we had to ensure maximum reliability for reporting by the intensive care unit," explains Florian Aßmus. And as if the firefighting mission during implementation had not been enough, the PRODYNA consultants were still faced with the challenge of explaining the complicated regulation and use of the new solution to Germany's more than 1,500 intensive care hospitals directly with the live launch. "24 hours before the hospitals had to report their beds, we still had to set up a service hotline on the fly and brief the phone operators," says Timothy Simms.
CMO Jens Weimar draws a very positive conclusion overall: "We learned a lot about ourselves and that we can be incredibly fast and still be professional. That only comes with many years of learned expertise." Please click here for further information on the project. Images from the awards ceremony can be found here.
