iX – Institute for Health System Development founded

11.12.2014 16:33

The “Institute for Health System Development” was launched in Berlin at the end of November. The aim of the institution is to present new care ideas and structural approaches for the continuous development of our health system, to discuss them in the political sphere and, if necessary, to help implement them in the care process.

“There is a clear need for optimization in these areas in Germany,” says Dr. Albrecht Kloepfer, founder and head of the institute: “Our essentially protectionist, self-managed health system has been successfully resisting any fundamental structural change for years, while outside the system the ideas for new impulses and care approaches are sprouting - and sometimes withering away again due to a lack of reimbursement options,” said the publicist, presenter and health networker.

As an example, Dr. In this context, Kloepfer points out the stalled developments towards coordinated processes between outpatient and inpatient care, the inadequate coordination in the care of chronic illnesses, the so far unsuccessful efforts to implement effective prevention approaches and the consistent refusal of those involved to digitally network which treatment processes and medication management could be significantly improved. “Billions of dollars have literally been smashing against the system walls here for decades, without any change in the care structures and our treatment processes,” says Kloepfer. “We have to do much better if we want to be able to meet the challenges of the future arising from demographic change and medical and technical progress.”

The Institute for Health System Development With its web platform and continuous public and semi-public events, it is its mission to bring people and ideas together in this area in order to inform politicians and the media about new supply potentials and to increase the political pressure to implement them. “We are pleased that a number of powerful and established partners have already joined these goals and have been credibly committed to systemic change for some time. “With this network it will be possible to make it clear to politicians and the public that we can provide better and more efficient care than we have done so far,” the institute’s founder is convinced.