Medicover Foundation is established to enable the resources and skills of the Medicover Group and people to have impact on the value of our charity projects, and to generate measurable positive changes in the community.
The Foundation’s most ambitious project is Nationawide Program for Diabetes and Prevention of Diseases of Affluence “PoZdro!”.
Medicover is the first private medical company to establish a partnership with a public university in order to organize full-time studies in professional healthcare. In 2011, the first edition of AWF*-Medicover Nursing Studies is launched. (*AWF - Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw).
Medicover Romania is the only private healthcare company having a partnership with Carol Davila - the biggest nursing vocational school in Romania (2014).
Medicover Group is also a strategic partner of Queen Silvia Nursing Award - the prize granted by Swedish Queen Silvia to those dealing with the elderly care.
Evidence-Based Care (EBC) program launched in 2013 to ensure compliance with diagnostics and treatment standards in selected, common conditions and health problems.
Medical Quality Index (MQI) the tracking of hard data related to the correctness of medical procedures and effectiveness of treatments. Medicover‘s Medical Quality Index reports trends in 20 quality indicators against therapeutic benchmarks.
Physician Developed Care Paths to ensure that we follow Medical Best Practice and International Guidelines. Following Medicover’s guidelines antibiotics use in viral URTI in adults has fallen by 1/3.
Specific Solutions for common healthcare issues. For example, back pain is one of the most common conditions and justifies 1/3 of all sick leaves. In a Medicover pilot clinic, physicians gave suitable back pain sufferers information on the causes of back pain and the importance of an active lifestyle. The result was 100% satisfied patients; 99% believing that such therapy can solve their problem, and a 40%-60% reduction in the cost and volume of further treatment
Since 2013, web chat medical consultations are available for Medicover patients.
Deployment of the Diabetes Tools app in 2013.
Remote consultations extended from web chat to voice and video consultations.
Today, Medicover is a leading international healthcare and diagnostic services provider operating a large number of its own ambulatory clinics, hospitals, specialty-care facilities and laboratories and its largest markets are Poland and Germany. In 2016, Medicover had revenues of €0.5 billion and close to 15,000 employees.