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The past and presumably also the current reforms of politics in the pharmaceutical sector strengthen the service providers working in the field of discount agreements according to §130a SGB V for the GKV. The reason for this lies essentially in the complexity of the materials as well as in the bundling of demand volumes. Despite the merger of several health insurance companies, however, they wish to see their individual interests reflected in the contract. Service providers like GWQ ServicePlus AG are measured by whether they enable individual contract strategies in the pharmaceuticals sector on the one hand and whether they successfully achieve high discounts on the other. This is accompanied by the complex task of the technical implementation of the contracts and also a far-reaching consulting service on drug contracts. This concerns pharmaceutical, procurement law, data technology and financial aspects.
01.06.2010
Federal Minister of Health Dr. Philipp Rösler in the MVF cover interview:
01.04.2010
Kommentar von Franz Knieps, Berater für Gesundheitspolitik der SPD-Fraktion, Wiese Consult, Berlin; war bis Ende 2009 Abteilungsleiter im Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, Berlin und ist u.a. Mitglied im Herausgeberbeirat von „Monitor Versorgungs- forschung“ (MVF)
01.04.2010
Krankenkassen erheben Zusatzbeiträge - eine erste Analyse der Hintergründe
01.04.2010
Diabetes mellitus: Auswirkungen einer Zulassungserweiterung auf die Patienten-Medikation
01.04.2010
Prof. Dr. Gerd Glaeske, head of the Center for Social Policy at the University of Bremen, in an MVF interview:
01.04.2010
The aim of the study was to analyze DRG-attributable effects on the care process in and around the hospital. On the basis of 30 representatively selected hospitals in Lower Saxony and using a differentiated methodology, it was possible to show: 1. The quality of direct patient care in the hospital has largely not changed due to the introduction of the DRG. 2. There is no evidence for a targeted selection of lucrative treatment cases. 3. The phenomenon of a "bloody dismissal" cannot be proven. 4. An increase in unplanned readmissions ("revolving door effect") in the course of the introduction of the DRG cannot be proven. 5. The hospitals have created the essential prerequisites for the operational implementation of the DRG system; a future-oriented strategic alignment and a consistent process design has only been partially implemented. 6. The working conditions have changed in the course of the introduction of the DRG, with the documentation and coding effort being overestimated. 7. The medium-sized and large hospitals are largely economically successful even under DRG conditions because they can use the opportunities for strategic realignment, while this is much more difficult for the smaller hospitals.
01.04.2010
The patient empowerment approach to training chronically ill people aims to help patients gain more autonomy in the care of their illness and improve their self-management skills. Based on this philosophy, the European Health Care Foundation has developed a training and care concept for healthcare professionals and chronically ill people. The core is a training portal for standardized coach training and care for patients with type 2 diabetes. The training concept was tested in a multicenter prospective study in German pharmacies. The Caoches and the patients rated the training material as good or very good, patients were able to manage their illness better through the training and 70% of the diabetes patients improved their HbA1c value by a mean of 0.7%
01.04.2010
A one-year pilot project commissioned by a German company health insurance company determined the medical, psychological and economic effects of telephone-based patient coaching. There was a lasting effect on the participants' quality of life and disease-specific risk factors. The hospitalization rate fell by over 60 % compared to the previous year of care. This resulted in a cost reduction in service expenditure in the inpatient area by 68 %, and the total costs per patient were reduced by 61 %. Through targeted information and motivation, patients are sustainably enabled to better self-manage their illness and to implement a health-promoting lifestyle. Patient coaching is a targeted instrument for achieving greater quality and efficiency in patient care.
01.04.2010
The German and Swiss healthcare systems differ fundamentally from one another, despite their common social security law. In terms of health care policy, Germany could learn in particular from Switzerland's positive experiences in the area of citizens' insurance, and Switzerland could learn from Germany in particular from those in the area of morbidity-oriented risk structure compensation and the partial participation of statutory health insurers in the continued payment of wages.