Digitalization in healthcare is no longer a "nice bonus," but a necessity. Slovakia is experiencing it in practice thanks in part to the Teamplay Fleet platform from Siemens Healthineers, which provides a real-time overview of medical equipment. The presentation showed how such a tool helps manage growing workloads, cybersecurity risks, and resource shortages.
Why digitalization is urgent
An aging population, hospital consolidation, and rapid technological transformation are creating pressure on efficiency and safety. According to the data cited, more than a third of IT personal data breach incidents in 2019 affected the healthcare sector, and the share continues to grow. Healthcare professionals also often struggle with incompatible systems and fragmented data, with some lacking access to modern digital tools.
More complex interconnection of devices means higher demands on operation and integration, yet budgets are not growing at the same pace. Care teams therefore need to perform more examinations with fewer resources while maintaining reproducible results. The key is to have reliable data and oversight of the device fleet – from utilization to maintenance and security.
What Teamplay Fleet brings
Teamplay Fleet is an interactive platform that shows the status of devices in real time: active, under maintenance, or faulty. It enables tracking utilization, comparing devices or departments, analyzing time per patient and examination durations, and running internal benchmarks. For hospital networks, a map is also available with a live overview of activity at individual locations.
Access is available via the web as well as native mobile apps. QR codes can be used to quickly identify devices, report a technical fault, attach a photo, or request remote support. The platform is device-agnostic and consolidates dashboards and history – from spare parts consumption through statistics to exports into internal databases and scheduling preventive inspections.
Experience from Slovakia and platform modules
In Slovakia, Teamplay Fleet was deployed in the first wave of rollouts, and according to the figures presented, more than 3,000 connections now occur daily and the platform covers over 90% of the installed base. Green, yellow, and red indicators on the map help teams quickly recognize utilized devices, planned downtimes, and failures. The goal is simple planning, fewer operational collisions, and faster response to issues – even "from the pocket" of a mobile phone.
The platform includes several modules: a fleet overview, maintenance planning and overview, a cybersecurity module with vulnerabilities and installation packages, and the Fleet Evolution module with information on new capabilities, software versions, and licenses. According to the presenter, Slovak customers actively contributed to improving the tool, which is meant to ease day-to-day operations and support innovation in healthcare.
