Viennese health policy under pressure: Korosec demands urgent reforms!

Viennese health policy under pressure: Korosec demands urgent reforms!

Wien, Österreich - On April 17, 2025, the health spokeswoman for the Vienna People's Party, LAbg. Ingrid Korosec, made her demands for necessary reforms in healthcare. She criticized the previous approaches and called for substantial changes to ensure health care in Vienna. According to ots.at , the challenges with which the health sector is confronted cannot be solved with election campaign statements.

Korosec pointed out that the Freedom Party (FPÖ) only presented any substance -free suggestions in health policy and consider this irresponsible. In addition, she asked for a comprehensive reform of the Vienna Health Association to fix persistent problems, such as the large number of unnecessary operating failures. She paid particular attention to the inadequate availability of staff during the afternoon.

digital solutions for health care

In order to cope with these challenges, Korosec emphasized the need to use digital offers in healthcare more. The national eHealth strategy, which was presented by Health Minister Johannes Rauch on July 10, 2024, aims to improve health care through digital technologies. A central guiding principle of this strategy is: "Digitally before on an outpatient point", as on Digitales.gv.at is explained.

Some of the main goals of the EHEALTH strategy include digital access to the health system and to your own health data for all citizens by 2030. In addition, the electronic health file (ELGA) is to be expanded in order to provide patients and relatives of health professions a comprehensive overview of important health data. As a result, diagnoses can be made easier and potentially life -saving information can be provided.

support for chronically ill

Another goal of the strategy is the support of people with chronic diseases. From the coming year, digital health apps that are aimed at specific diseases such as diabetes or migraines should be available. These apps enable patients to effectively manage their health data and to better monitor their state of health, as in the information from In addition, the health hotline 1450 is expanded into the first point of contact for health complaints. From 2026, appointment bookings and video consultations are also to be made possible there, which in particular benefits people with restricted mobility. These digital progress are part of the new health strategy, which is supported by the federal government, the federal states and social security annually.