Innovation Committee makes four further positive transfer recommendations

19.12.2022 16:36

The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has made resolutions on eight completed funding projects and published them on its website. It is explained whether and to what extent the tried and tested approaches should be transferred into care and how the knowledge gained should be dealt with. If positive transfer recommendations are made, organizations and institutions in the healthcare sector are asked to take these into account within their responsibility.

This is the case for four projects:

• The project GOAL ASV has examined which factors influence the nationwide structure of the “outpatient specialist medical care” offer.
• In the project KuMS various questions have been investigated that may be relevant for women with multiple sclerosis before, during and after pregnancy.
• The project RemugVplan developed a model that, as an example, predicts the care needs for very old and multiply ill patients in Saxony.
• goal of the project TELE-QOL The aim was to develop an instrument for measuring quality of life in telemedical care in order to better capture the patient perspective in telemedical applications.

GOAL-ASV – General evaluation and further development of the ASV-RL covering all ASV indications (§ 116b SGB V)

Outpatient specialist medical care (ASV) was introduced by law in 2012: Patients with complex or rare diseases should receive the best possible care through an interdisciplinary and cross-sector offering. The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) lays down further details about this care concept in the ASV guidelines. On this basis, ASV teams can report their participation to the extended state committees (eLA).

The GOAL-ASV project identified relevant and influenceable factors for the nationwide development of the ASV, including the willingness of practices and clinics to participate and the practical implementation. In addition, the project derived concrete suggestions from the findings to improve ASV care. The Innovation Committee will now forward these findings and recommendations to the G-BA so that it can include them in its deliberations on the ASV. The eLA and the Federal Ministry of Health will also be informed about the project results.

KuMS – Desire to have children and multiple sclerosis – A balancing act for expectant mothers and their children?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the nervous system with an often relapsing course. 70 percent of those affected in Germany are women. The disease typically begins between the ages of 20 and 40 during childbearing years. The KuMS project has, among other things, successfully investigated how pretreatment and discontinuation of certain MS medications affect disease activity during and after pregnancy. The results expand previous findings on the effects of MS therapy on pregnancy, birth and children and can be incorporated into the advice and decision-making of women who want to have children. In addition, further specific research needs are identified.

The Innovation Committee will send the project results to, among others, the German Society for Neurology. V., the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, the Federal Center for Health Education and the Pharmacovigilance and Advisory Center for Embryonic Toxicology at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

RemugVplan – Regional multisectoral geriatric care planning

In Germany, the number of geriatric people - that is, people who are very old and have multiple illnesses - will increase significantly. However, so far there are only indications as to which outpatient, inpatient and nursing needs correspond to this population development. The RemugVplan project has carried out a cross-sectoral analysis of current supply needs and access to them in Saxony, as an example. The project also developed a model that predicts the supply needs in Saxony: This analyzes where offers for a good level of medical care can be set up and how cross-sector planning can be structured.

The results achieved in the project will be forwarded to the Conference of Health Ministers of the states, the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion and the Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians for information so that they can be taken into account in the further development of regional planning of geriatric care structures.

TELE-QOL – Setting-sensitive conceptualization and recording of quality of life in telemedical care

Telemedicine will play an increasing role in diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation. The TELE-QOL project has developed an instrument with which the quality of life of patients can be measured in the context of telemedicine applications. This makes it possible to better assess the desired and undesirable effects of telemedicine from the patient's perspective.

In order to promote patient orientation and the evidence base of telemedical applications, the results obtained in the project will be passed on to the Digital Health Working Group of the German Network for Healthcare Research. V., the German Foundation for the Chronically Ill and the German Society for Telemedicine e. V. forwarded for information.