The German Society for Integrated Care in Healthcare e. V. (DGIV) in cooperation with the Federal Association of Managed Care e. V. (BMC) completed the second survey round of their health insurance survey project “Monitoring IV” in 2012. The survey was carried out and evaluated by the Competence Center E-Commerce (CCEC) at the Free University of Berlin. “Monitor Health Care Research” spoke about the project and the current situation in integrated care with Prof. Dr. Stefan G. Spitzer (DGIV), Prof. Dr. Volker Amelung (BMC) and Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch (CCEC).

> Why did the DGIV decide to carry out a second round of surveys in its “Monitoring IV” project?
Spitzer: With our first round of surveys in this project, we collected data up to the summer of 2010. There was more speculation than solid knowledge about the development of integrated care in the period that followed. In addition, the Care Structure Act clearly did not provide any new impetus for integrative forms of care. We were generally aware of developments in the country because we are close to this form of care. But there have been different statements in the public in the past about the attitude of the statutory health insurance companies to integrated care. From our point of view, it was important to give the public discussion about the attitude of service providers to IV a rational basis again. In addition, the evaluation of the first round of surveys raised new questions to which we were now able to obtain answers in the new survey. In addition, longitudinal studies over several points in time are particularly interesting, as they allow the change process and its background to be better analyzed.

What motivated the BMC to get involved in the project?

Read more: Archive issue 06/2012