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Benefit assessment needs new, European approaches. The processes are too complex and opaque, and patient preferences are not taken into account enough. At the fifth plenary event “Benefit Assessment 2.0 – European Standards for Patient Benefit?” in June 2019, experts in Berlin discussed decision-making criteria and the necessary steps for the uniform assessment of innovative therapies, medications and medical devices.
04.04.2019
The founding of the Bergisches Competence Center for Health Economics and Health Care Research - originally the Bergisches Competence Center for Health Management and Public Health - (BKG) in 2009 was based on the conviction that health is a central value. The guiding principle behind its creation was to design future-proof care together with those involved in the local health system and economy. Since then, the interdisciplinary center has been an integral part of the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics at the University of Wuppertal and a supporting pillar of the profile line “Health, Prevention and Exercise” at the University of Wuppertal. The working group “Health Care Research and Health Economic Evaluation” was initiated at the BKG in 2010 and has since been led by Professor Dr. Juliane Köberlein-Neu directed.
04.04.2019
“Against this background, the question arises as to how Cochrane as an organization deals with such members,” wrote Prof. Dr. Gerd Antes, who looks back on almost 25 years of experience as a member of the Cochrane Organization (including a member of the Steering Group and Director of the German Cochrane Center until 2018) in a blog1: The reason for his intervention was the dismissal of Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, one of the founding members of the collaboration and not only long-time director of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen, but also, according to Antes, one of the Cochrane authors with a veritable “wealth of articles and books as well as analyzes on many of today's explosive topics Health research and care”.
04.04.2019
The BMC board explains the seven points that the pluralistic association with its over 200 members would like to bring into the discussion on the occasion of the Digital Supply Act (DVG) passed by the Federal Cabinet on July 10th. For this purpose, board members and management met at the last BMC board meeting.
04.04.2019
Comment from Dr. Ilona Köster-Steinebach, managing director of the Aktionsbündnis Patient Safety eV
04.04.2019
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmitt, congress president of the German Congress for Health Care Research (DKVF), which is taking place for the 18th time this year, and director of the Center for Evidence-Based Health Care (ZEGV) at the University Hospital Dresden, takes a position on the major task of health care research that lies ahead: the support and promotion of transfer effective concepts and interventions from research into routine care, with the help of which a learning health system can be created.
04.04.2019
“The SELFIE Framework for Integrated Care for Multi-Morbidity”, “Task shifting between doctors and nurses in acute care hospitals: cross-sectional study in nine countries”, “Hospital: Impulses from Denmark for Germany”. This is how three of the 33 publications are titled, which Prof. Dr. med. Reinhard Busse and his team published last year alone, and in 2017 there were 37. This means that the “Management in Health Care” (MiG) department at the Technical University of Berlin (TU) is one of the most published in Germany, especially in international journals. This is of course also due to the fact that internationality is not a slogan at MiG, but rather a program: Since 2002, MiG has been led by Busse, whom Richard Lane from the Lancet described in an author profile as a “leader in Germany's health-system development”. national and international research projects on topics from health policy and systems, health services research, health economics and management as well as the assessment of health technologies (Health Technology Assessment - HTA).
04.04.2019
Dilek Kolat, Senator for Health, Care and Equality from Berlin, and Frank Ahrend, member of the management board of AOK Nordost and responsible for, jointly position themselves on the topic of “20 years of the Berlin project – care with the plus” in an interview with “Monitor Healthcare Research”. the “Central Services and Care” department.
04.04.2019
The Institute for Community Medicine at Greifswald University Medical Center under the leadership of its Managing Director, Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Hoffmann, not followed. On the occasion of the second edition of the “Germany-wide forecast of population-related morbidity expectancy for common cancers. Effects on care”, Hoffmann presented current figures on the future development of prevalence and incidence of cancer at the capital congress, as well as a comparison to his first work for the DGHO, the study “Challenge of demographic change” published in 2013. Stocktaking and future requirements for oncological care”. The result: The prediction at the time for the year 2020 - based on the data available at the time from 2008 - was amazingly correct: except for just a few percent!
04.04.2019
Prof. Dr. Volker Amelung, Hans-Holger Bleß and Ralph Lägel have been working together since the beginning of the year at inav, a research and consulting institute active in the healthcare sector with a focus on healthcare research, innovative healthcare concepts, digital health, market access and reimbursement. In this way, the trio addresses three fields of innovation in the German healthcare system: on the one hand, digital health, on the other hand, the innovation fund and, thirdly, innovations in the areas of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, in which there has been a tremendous amount of change, especially in recent years. “Monitor Healthcare Research” wants to shed more light on these fields in an interview: Let’s start with the highly topical topic of digitalization due to the Digital Healthcare Act, for which Ralph Lägel is responsible for the content at inav.