Training as a medical assistant at Savignyplatz
Joining Stefan Heinrich's ophthalmology practice was the beginning of my path into outpatient care.
Profile
Aljoscha Nickel
Health economist, managing director and shareholder with a focus on outpatient care, MVZ structures, practice organization and economically sustainable health care.
Outpatient careMVZ managementOphthalmologyPractice organizationHealth economics
Aljoscha Nickel
Short profile
I work at the intersection of outpatient care, organization and economic viability. My perspective comes from practice operations, operating room organization, MVZ management, health economics, founding and business development.
My perspective grew out of actual care delivery. That is where my thinking starts: care must be medically meaningful, economically sustainable and organizationally feasible.
Roles
Current professional roles
Heinrich MVZ Tragergesellschaft mbH
Managing director of MVZ Ihre Augenaerzte, responsible for organization, development and sustainable outpatient care structures.
Ihre Augenaerzte MedTech GmbH
Managing director at the interface of care delivery, technology and operational implementation in ophthalmology.
ALN Consulting UG
Managing shareholder focused on entrepreneurial development, structural questions and practical perspectives in health care.
Career path
Career path in health care
On December 15, 2015, I started my training as a medical assistant in an ophthalmology practice at Savignyplatz, then still Stefan Heinrich's classic single-doctor practice. There I not only learned a profession, but also understood early how closely medical quality, organization and economic reality are connected in care delivery.
Medical assistant, operating room routine and outpatient care
In the practice and operating room setting, I experienced how strongly quality, timing, teamwork and responsibilities are connected.
Health economics and health management
The part-time degree gave me language and structure for many questions I had already seen in practice.
Change of perspective into inpatient care
My time in an orthopedic specialist clinic showed me how differently outpatient and inpatient logic can work.
Consulting, founding and entrepreneurial practice
In startup and founding contexts, I learned how important clear priorities, speed and robust decisions under uncertainty are.
Business development and industry perspective
In the pharma environment, care chains, product logic, regulation and the question of serious scaling added another layer.
Expertise
Topics I would like to be publicly associated with
I do not work from a purely theoretical consulting perspective. My view grew out of practice operations, operating room organization, MVZ management, health economics, founding and business development.
I know the demands of outpatient care from ongoing operations: patients, teamwork, timing, quality and economic viability.
From the operating room environment, I know how important clear processes, reliable responsibilities and good coordination between consultation, surgery and team are.
Today, my work is about structures that connect medical quality, growth, team leadership and economic sustainability.
I also assess care with regard to financing, incentives, prevention and fair access.
Through founding, consulting and industry work, I know how ideas can be translated into sustainable models and practical steps.
Professional contributions
A public contribution on care, early detection and financing.
The commentary on glaucoma screening is an example of how I think about practice, health policy and economic questions together.
Why glaucoma screening should be publicly reimbursed
OPHTHALMO-CHIRURGIE
38th year, issue 2, March 2026, pages 73-74
Full source: OPHTHALMO-CHIRURGIE, 38th year, issue 2, March 2026, pages 73-74.
A published commentary on why early glaucoma detection is medically plausible, relevant to health policy and meaningful from a health-economic perspective.
The article connects care practice, fair access, the costs of late-stage disease and the question of how prevention can be financed fairly.
This contribution is representative of my perspective: care must be medically meaningful, organizationally feasible and fairly financeable.
Health careCare deliveryHealth policyPublished