Ceremonial awarding of the Lohfert Prize 2022 and the Media Prize
22.09.2022 10:05
Christoph Lohfert Foundation awards the Lohfert Prize 2022 to easy-to-understand “patient letters after inpatient stays” from “Was hab´ ich?” gGmbH. Yesterday, on September 20, 2022, the Lohfert Prize 2022 was awarded together with the Media Prize of the Christoph Lohfert Foundation ceremoniously awarded at the 17th Health Industry Congress (GWK) in Hamburg.
The welcoming words were spoken by Stefan Schwartze, MdB, Federal Government Commissioner for Patient Affairs, and State Councilor Melanie Schlotzhauer, Social Authority, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Prof. Heinz Lohmann, GWK President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Christoph Lohfert Foundation, moderated the event. Together for better health: In the presence of the Federal Government's patient representative, Stefan Schwartze, MdB, and the Hamburg State Councilor Melanie Schlotzhauer, the foundation board members Carolina Lohfert Praetorius and Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Zacharowski, ML FRCA FESAIC yesterday ceremoniously presented the Lohfert Prize, worth 20,000 euros, and the media prize of the Christoph Lohfert Foundation.
The Lohfert Prize 2022 was awarded to the project “Patient letters after inpatient stays” from “What have I?” gGmbH from Dresden in cooperation with the Herzzentrum Dresden GmbH University Hospital and evaluated by the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden. The patron of the Lohfert Prize is Dr. Regina Klakow-Franck, deputy head of the Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Healthcare (IQTIG). The award ceremony took place as part of the 17th Hamburg Health Industry Congress.
Active involvement of patients and relatives
The award-winning project contributes to patients' health literacy and health-promoting behavior by providing information and education that is understandable to laypeople. Thanks to the automation and integration of the software into the clinic's own IT, this can be achieved without any additional personnel effort. In addition, according to Ansgar Jonietz, managing director of “What have I?” gGmbH in conversation with jury member Dr. Andreas Tecklenburg, especially at the “sector transition from inpatient to outpatient,” the “patient letter acts like a kit and also relieves the burden on the outpatient sector because the patient arrives there already well informed.” The Federal Government’s patient representative, Stefan Schwartze, MdB, spoke in one Greetings expressed his support for bringing the layman-understandable patient letter into standard care and recommended Ansgar Jonietz: “Stay persistent!”
Make communication of health information tangible, understandable and accessible to everyone
The science editors Korinna Hennig, Katharina Mahrenholtz and Beke Schulmann took part together with Prof. Dr. Sandra Ciesek, director of medical virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt, received the media award from the Christoph Lohfert Foundation for the podcast “Coronavirus update” from NDR Info in contrast to. The media prize was awarded on the occasion of the tenth Lohfert Prize as a special prize worth 20,000 euros. State Secretary Melanie Schlotzhauer from the Social Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg emphasized the importance of the podcast during the pandemic and the role of communication, especially in pandemic management.
Subsequent recognition of the award-winning projects from 2020 and 2021
In addition to the current award-winning projects, the award-winning projects of 2020 - "Pharmacotherapy Management Halle", University Hospital Halle - and 2021 - "The Hamburg Model: Integrated and coordinated care for people with serious psychotic illnesses", University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf - were also recognized after their Awards ceremonies were canceled due to the pandemic.
About the Lohfert Prize
The Lohfert Prize 2022 was advertised on the topic “Together for better health: models and technologies to improve accessibility, information and participation in health care”. As in previous years, the focus should be on projects that demonstrate and implement measurable quality in this sense. With the Lohfert Prize, the Christoph Lohfert Foundation honors and promotes tried-and-tested and sustainable concepts to improve quality and patient orientation in healthcare.
Sustainability theme of the Lohfert Prize 2023
The title of the 2023 Lohfert Prize is: “Rethinking medicine – future-proof concepts for sustainable healthcare”. Applications can be submitted from the end of October https://www.christophlohfert-stiftung.de/lohfert-preis/ausschreibung-2023/ be submitted. The application deadline is February 28, 2023.