DGINA: Emergency physicians start digital network for exchange

Silo

Among other things, the members of the DGINA can use the new network to discuss patient cases with one another.

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For the communication of the emergency physicians, the DGINA works together with the messenger service Siilo, which specializes in medical professionals. A third of the approximately 1,800 DGINA members downloaded the app and registered just a few days after it was launched, they say.

For DGINA President Martin Pin, chief physician of the Central Emergency Department at the Florence Nightingale Hospital Düsseldorf, the advantages of the new contact channel are obvious: “The Messenger gives us the opportunity to use the swarm intelligence of our members.” An exchange of experiences can take place quickly and easily – “Currently, for example, with regard to the admission of patients who had to be evacuated and treated from the flood disaster regions,” says Pin.

Every Monday there is a patient case

In addition, the participants could expand their range of knowledge, explains DGINA member Sebastian Casu, chief physician of the central emergency room at the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg Wandsbek: “By regularly uploading content in the so-called ‘DGINA Weekly’ tile, our network takes on training character.” Patient case presented, every Thursday it deals with a political issue – “and every Friday we discuss a picture from everyday emergency medicine in the clinic,” says Casu.

The DGINA members get access to a closed directory via the messenger, through which they can exchange messages with other members of the network without having to know their contact details. In the Siilo network set up for emergency physicians, both professional and professional-political exchanges take place. Communication takes place securely and anonymously, emphasizes the app provider founded in the Netherlands in 2016.

Various networks in Germany

According to its own information, Siilo has already founded various networks of medical specialist areas and specialist societies across Germany. At the Kassel Clinic, for example, the “Roundtable ITS” network with Prof. Ralf Muellenbach, chief physician for anesthesiology, intensive care, emergency medicine and pain therapy, and his more than 100 colleagues is very active and strengthens the cooperation between the intensive care facilities in the region. Further customers in Germany are hospitals such as the Hannover Region Clinic and the Düsseldorf University Clinic, as well as medical associations such as the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) and the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM).