20th Berlin Network Conference: How innovative is the German healthcare system after the election?
09.12.2013 11:56
The "UCB Network Conference 2014" will take place from January 31st to February 1st, 2014, marking its 20th anniversary. The conference will kick off with a keynote address by the President of the German Medical Association, Prof. Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery. The highlight of the first day will be a panel discussion on the topic "Healthcare System 2014: A Good Choice for Innovation?""
Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Günter Neubauer from the Institute for Health Economics in Munich, Dr. Carsten Jäger (Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Agency of German Physician Networks), Walter Plassmann (Chairman of the Board of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Hamburg), and Thomas Ballast (Deputy Chairman of the Board of Techniker Krankenkasse) will discuss the impact of the recent federal election on the design options for physician networks. A political panelist from the incoming federal government will be announced later.
On Saturday, the focus will shift to current healthcare and network initiatives. Following a presentation of the evaluation criteria for physician networks in the regional associations of statutory health insurance physicians (KVs) of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, as stipulated in Section 87b of the German Social Code, Book V (SGB V), various case studies from Worms, Saxony, Nuremberg, and East Hesse will be presented, addressing topics such as member and recruitment, network financing, and patient-centered care. Further presentations will cover telemedicine and cross-sectoral integration using IT. Another topic will be the rheumatology contract that Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) recently concluded with the German Rheumatologists Association (BDRh). The event will conclude with a panel discussion in which representatives from physician networks and representatives from statutory health insurance funds will discuss the possibilities for selective contracts in general.
Further information about the event and the complete program of the “UCB Network Conference 2014“ can be found at http://www.unternehmen-arztpraxis.de/Netzkonferenz; interested physicians can register using the registration form provided there.