About Management & Krankenhaus

Management & Krankenhaus

Management & Krankenhaus, abbreviated M&K, is the German-language specialist newspaper for executives and professionals in hospitals and other inpatient facilities, published by Wiley-VCH in Weinheim. Appearing monthly including three double issues, nine print editions per year, with an average distribution of 30,000 copies, it addresses everyone who plans and decides investments and wants to improve processes in the hospital. With its companion digital industry portal management-krankenhaus.de, it covers all topics relevant to inpatient healthcare: health economics, health policy, hygiene, IT and communication, laboratory and diagnostics, medical technology, and building, furnishing and supplying.

Overview

Management & Krankenhaus is a Fachzeitung, a specialist newspaper, for the stationäre Gesundheitswesen: the inpatient healthcare sector. The readership comprises the top management and all executives and users in inpatient facilities who are involved in investment decisions and in processes for optimising workflows. The medium also reaches the entire sales channel, from the manufacturers via the distributors to the end users. With its distribution of 30,000 copies, the largest in this industry's market, and its target-group portal, M&K reaches the most readers in inpatient healthcare across Germany.

The newspaper appears monthly, including three double issues, in its 45th volume in 2026. The first issue appeared in 1981. The print ISSN is 0176-053X. The publisher is Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA in Weinheim, part of the global John Wiley & Sons publishing group headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The editorial leadership includes Ulrike Hoffrichter in the chief editorial role and Steffen Ebert as Publishing Director, with Bettina Willnow in product management, Jörg Wüllner in sales direction and Silvia Edam in advertising administration.

The editorial concept combines neutral analysis, reports and reportages with a balanced editorial approach. The journalists and the contributors from clinics and politics, professional societies, organisations and industry report in language understandable to all responsible parties, application-oriented, on important new approaches, procedures and technologies. The neutral analysis is the brand's promise: in a market where the manufacturers' marketing competes for the decision-makers' attention, the independent editorial assessment of products, procedures and technologies provides the orientation that the investment decisions require. The standing sections include health economics, health policy, hygiene, IT and communication, laboratory and diagnostics, medicine and technology, pharma, facility management, and building, furnishing and supplying.

History

Management & Krankenhaus was first published in 1981, in the years when the German hospital sector was entering its modern management era. The 1980s brought the professionalisation of hospital administration: the economic pressures, the new financing systems, the growing medical technology, and the first computerisation of the hospitals created the demand for a medium that addressed the decision-makers across departments.

The German hospital system is one of the world's largest inpatient sectors: some 1,900 hospitals with nearly half a million beds, run by public, non-profit and private operators, financed through the dual system of the states and the health insurers. The management of these institutions is a complex discipline: the medical, the nursing, the technical and the economic logics must be reconciled under the constraints of the regulated financing. A specialist newspaper that speaks to all the decision-relevant target groups, in language understandable to all responsible parties, fills the information gap between the medical journals and the management literature.

The newspaper grew with the sector's transformations: the introduction of the DRG system, the hospital reforms of the 2000s, the digitalisation of the clinical processes, the hygiene debates, and the current challenges of the hospital reform, the staffing shortage and the energy transition. Through more than four decades, M&K has documented the management agenda of German hospitals from the decision-maker's perspective.

The publishing history reflects the consolidation of the specialist media market: from the GIT Verlag in Darmstadt, the newspaper came to Wiley-VCH in Weinheim, the German arm of the global Wiley group. The GIT Verlag, the German specialist publisher for laboratory and hospital technology, had built the hospital media portfolio with the M&K Krankenhaus-Jahrbuch of the 1990s and the special editions on medical technology, oncology, pain and diabetes. The integration into Wiley-VCH gave the brand the resources of the global science publisher: the digital infrastructure, the international network, and the B2B media expertise of Wiley Corporate Solutions. The digital expansion with the management-krankenhaus.de portal and the online edition, published since 2001, made M&K the cross-media industry medium.

Content and Sections

The content covers all topics relevant to inpatient healthcare. Gesundheitsökonomie, health economics, addresses the financing and the economic management: the hospital financing, the investment planning, the controlling, the efficiency programmes. Gesundheitspolitik, health policy, follows the political framework: the federal and state hospital policy, the reform legislation, the regulatory decisions.

Hygiene covers the hospital hygiene: the infection prevention, the hygiene management, the regulatory requirements. IT & Kommunikation addresses the digitalisation: the hospital information systems, the telematics infrastructure, the cybersecurity, the digital patient record. Labor & Diagnostik covers the laboratory medicine and the diagnostics: the analysers, the point-of-care testing, the laboratory organisation.

Medizintechnik, medical technology, is the core technology section: the imaging, the surgery technology, the intensive care, the medical devices. Bauen, Einrichten & Versorgen covers the building and equipping: the hospital construction, the interior furnishing, the catering and the logistics. Pharma and Facility Management complete the spectrum. The special editions, from the oncology and pain supplements of the early 2000s to the current focus topics, serve the deepening needs.

Publisher and Organization

Management & Krankenhaus is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA in Weinheim, the German publishing arm of John Wiley & Sons. Wiley-VCH, headquartered in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, is one of Germany's leading science and specialist publishers, with brands including CHEManager, GIT Laborportal, GIT Sicherheit + Management, and the "Für Dummies" programme. The M&K brand is part of the Wiley Corporate Solutions portfolio, the B2B media business.

The editorial and publishing leadership includes Ulrike Hoffrichter (Chefredaktion), Steffen Ebert (Publishing Director), Bettina Willnow (Product Management), Jörg Wüllner (Director Sales) and Silvia Edam (advertising administration). The business model combines the subscription revenue, with the annual subscription at 139.60 euros plus VAT and the single issue at 16.50 euros, with the advertising business targeting the manufacturers and distributors of hospital products and services. The IVW membership documents the audited distribution.

Digital Presence

The B2B target-group portal management-krankenhaus.de is the digital industry medium: the current news, the article archive, the topic dossiers, the event calendar, and the newsletter services. The online edition, published since 2001, extends the print newspaper into the digital space. The portal serves the decision-makers' daily information needs: the quick update on the industry news, the background on the investment topics, the contact to the suppliers.

The digital strategy serves the cross-media industry medium: the print newspaper provides the compiled overview and the analysis, the portal the daily currency, the newsletters the push service, and the special formats (e-Talks, the Entscheider-Tisch decision-makers' roundtable) the interactive dialogue. For the hospital decision-maker, whose working day leaves little room for media consumption, the combination is designed for efficiency: the monthly newspaper for the strategic overview, the portal and newsletters for the operational updates. With its 45th volume in 2026, its 30,000-copy distribution and its position as the market's largest medium, Management & Krankenhaus remains the specialist newspaper for the decision-makers of German inpatient healthcare, in print nine times a year from Weinheim and online every day.