MSD Health Prize 2012 awarded for groundbreaking healthcare projects

11.10.2012 13:42

In order to strengthen the collaboration of all those involved in the healthcare system to provide effective care, the research-based pharmaceutical company MSD SHARP & DOHME GMBH (MSD) announced the MSD Health Prize for the first time in 2011. Under the patronage of State Minister Dr. On October 10, 2012, Wolfgang Heubisch was honored with five prize winners for groundbreaking supply projects and received a total of 100,000 euros in prize money. “The aim is to recognize and further promote innovative and sustainable supply optimization in Germany,” explains Erik Meinhardt, Director of Market Access at MSD.

More than 50 utility projects were submitted. The criterion of independently determined evaluation results was adhered to in almost all project proposals. Ten projects made it to the final round, from which five winners were chosen. “We want to promote care concepts that are evaluated under real conditions at the level of relevant populations, such as patients with cardiovascular diseases,” continues Erik Meinhardt. “With the MSD Health Prize, we hope to promote collaboration between doctors, health insurance companies and industry in the interests of high-quality and affordable care in the future.” The following groundbreaking projects were recognized by the jury (Prof. Dr. Volker Amelung, Dr. Rolf Koschorrek, Dr. Thomas Lang, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz, Prof. Dr. Peter C. Scriba) selected:

• Outpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation Complex (AGR) GbR, Schöneck: “Outpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation Complex”

• University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and Evangelical Hospital Alsterdorf: “Diagnostics, acute therapy, validation on an internal medicine ward for people with dementia (DAVID)”
• University Medicine Pharmacy, Mainz: “Optimization of drug therapy across sector boundaries”
• Quality and Efficiency (QuE) eG, Nuremberg: “Innovation in a network – better care for the chronically ill!”
• Techniker Krankenkasse, Hamburg: “Telemedicine for the heart”

“For us it is confirmation that we are on the right path,” said Dr. med. Volkmar Männl from the Doctor Network Quality and Efficiency eG, Nuremberg, one of the five winners at the award ceremony. Professor Amelung, Chairman of the Federal Association of Managed Care e. V. and independent jury member of the MSD Health Prize commented on the award ceremony as follows: “These award-winning ideas are wonderful examples of the innovative projects that are being implemented in the German healthcare landscape for the benefit of patients. Better care and low costs are by no means a contradiction, but rather the consequence of innovative care models and efficient cooperation between all those involved.” Further information about the 2012 award winners and the MSD Health Prize 2012/13 can be found at www.msd.de/uebermsd/sorgesmanagement.