The Tele-Emergency Physician System as an Innovation in Prehospital ...

The tele-emergency physician system has been steadily gaining importance in prehospital emergency care for years and has already been tested in various pilot projects across Germany. This volume critically examines the system as implemented in the district of Western-Pomerania through the “Land|Rettung” project. To do so, emergency rescue operation data from 2015 to 2020 were comprehensively analyzed in a pre-post comparison, and the system’s costs were assessed based on the project implementation. Additionally, by modeling a queuing system, the study explored different coordination models (centralized vs. decentralized) for the tele-emergency physician system and evaluated their respective advantages and disadvantages.

The Author

Dr. Rebekka Süss has been working at the Chair of General Business Administration and Health Care Management at the University of Greifswald under the direction of Prof. Dr. Steffen Fleßa since 2017. Until 2020, she was responsible for the economic evaluation of project measures within the “Land|Rettung” project and was deeply involved in the implementation of the tele-emergency physician system in the district of Western-Pomerania. She is currently also involved in a health services research project with a focus on health economics.

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