Practice site of the under-appreciated opportunity by Thomas Ackermann, MSc.(Univ.) and Andreas Wasielewski structures identify and assess a special walk using the site analysis using? r this purpose developed software we create complex site and structure analysis and predict representative u? about the quality of a practice site in terms of its opportunities and risks throughout the Federal territory fu? r all specialist groups. It is thus an objective and accurate decision basis fu? r the choice of correct practice location. A growing competition and cost pressure there is in health care. On the other hand treatment methods, medical equipment and medical services the same to continue. This makes own practice against increasingly difficult differentiate other market participants.

The success of a practice in future will depend whether the practice owner, to make use of competitive advantages for themselves. A so far underestimated opportunity to the development of sustainable and hard inimitable competitive advantage lies in the selection of the correct location of the practice. The geographic place where the doctor offers his services is meant. Other industries such as the trade saw the site as a key criterion for the sustainable success of the company long ago. In contrast, such considerations are usually still rather foreign practice (dental) doctor, founder, as also the established practice. “Given the current developments in health care, this is a negligent dealing with odds: patients usually vote with their feet”. Who in the place there is, where are patient flows, or develop, which will have little or no part at these odds. For every healthcare professionals who would like to take the step into their own independence, the question of where he wants to exercise his practical work in the future arises. Primarily this decision by personal preferences. In the Unlike the financial issues of founding a practice, that can be assessed objectively on the basis of available data, is the assessment of a practice site in terms of its quality defined by opportunities and risks but mostly due to subjective and non-quantifiable factors.