What we do

Thieme Talk

The Thieme Talk is an event format of the Thieme Group for a comprehensive exchange on relevant cross-sectional topics in medicine and healthcare. 

View of the hall and the audience during Thieme Talk 2023.

Interdisciplinary and independent

We offer an independent and interdisciplinary discussion platform for representatives from science, health care, politics and the media. The topics are deliberately chosen broadly and are discussed on a meta-level. The event format also enables an informal and intensive exchange of ideas between speakers and guests beyond the subject matter.

Shortage of specialists, understaffing, chronic overwork: how can patient care be secured in the future?

Thieme Talk 2023: Host von Hirschhausen in conversation with panel guests.
Thieme Talk 2023: Prof. Karagiannidis speaks on the panel.

Thieme Talk 2023 

The shortage of specialists is one of the biggest challenges our healthcare system is facing. Treatments already have to be canceled today due to a lack of staff. Many employees feel overworked and quite a few are considering leaving the profession. Added to this are the effects of demographic change: many working people will retire in the next few years. At the same time, the number of older people requiring adequate medical care is constantly increasing. How can our healthcare system meet these challenges? What contribution can migration or the use of artificial intelligence, for example, make to counteracting the shortage of specialists? How can supply bottlenecks be avoided? These questions were discussed intensively at the China Club in Berlin on October 26, 2023.

Thieme Talk 2023: Katrin Siems speaks on the panel.
Thieme Talk 2023: Joana Hauff spricht auf dem Podium.

Your host

Joana Hauff, Member of the Advisory Board, Thieme

Thieme Talk 2023: Host von Hirschhausen talks on the panel.

Your moderater

Dr. med. Eckart von Hirschhausen, physician and presenter.

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Senior Vice President Communications

Corporate Communications, Brand Communications 

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Past events

Thieme Talk 2022

Shortage of skilled workers, climate change, supply bottlenecks, demographic change: What do we need to prepare for?

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach speaks at Thieme Talk 2022.
A woman with a microphone from the audience asks a question during Thieme Talk 2022.

Thieme Talk 2022

Our healthcare system is facing major challenges: The effects of the pandemic and climate change, the increasing shortage of specialists and the associated supply bottlenecks, an aging population and sluggish digitization. In order not to walk blindly into the next crisis, we must all play a part in preparing our healthcare system for it. But how can this be done? What is needed to ensure that patients can continue to receive good care in the future? This was the topic of discussion at the Humbold Carré in Berlin on October 19, 2022.

Mr. Kroemer speaks on the panel during Thieme Talk 2022.
Host CEO Dr. Albrecht Hauff speaks at Thieme Talk 2022.

Your host

Dr. h.c. Albrecht Hauff, Chairman and CEO of the Thieme Group.

Presenter Dr. med. Eckart von Hirschhausen speaks at the Thieme Talk.

Your moderater

Dr. med. Eckart von Hirschhausen, physician and presenter.

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Patient Care

More and more multimorbid patients, time pressure, difficult cases - and still always make the right decisions? Thieme supports information, communication and documentation processes in everyday care and thus creates freedom for what really matters in medicine: people.

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Partnership and Engagement

Healthcare has many facets. That is why it is important for us to bring together the expertise of many. Together, we are committed to better medicine and a healthier life.

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