Ceremonial awarding of the Lohfert Prize 2023
21.09.2023 18:31
Christoph Lohfert Foundation awards “Charité PROM Rollout – Integration of the patient perspective into routine care”, a project by the Charité – University Medicine.
Rethinking medicine: In the presence of Hamburg State Councilor Tim Angerer, the foundation board members Carolina Lohfert Praetorius and Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Zacharowski, ML FRCA FESAIC, ceremoniously received the 2023 Lohfert Prize, worth 20,000 euros, yesterday.
The 2023 Lohfert Prize was awarded to the project “Charité PROM Rollout – Integration of the patient perspective into routine care”, a project by the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin under the leadership of the Charité Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research on behalf of the Board of Directors for Health Care Charité, Prof. Dr. Martin E. Kreis. The patron of the Lohfert Prize is Dr. Regina Klakow-Franck, former chairwoman of the quality assurance subcommittee and impartial member of the G-BA. The award ceremony took place as part of the Hamburg Health Industry Congress.
How patient-centered care can be achieved
The award-winning project aims to record the health experience from the patient's perspective in a uniform way across the Charité using so-called “Patient-Reported Out-come Measures” (PROMs). The goal is to optimize medical communication with patients and to involve them more easily in therapy decisions in order to sustainably improve the quality of treatment and quality of life. At the same time, the PRO data obtained contribute to the comparability of various therapy and treatment options.
The decision of the health board of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin to introduce the PROMs company-wide also impressed the Hamburg State Councilor for Health and Labor, Tim Angerer. In his greeting he emphasized: “Today we are not only awarding an innovative project, but also a project that has a role model character. They create a benchmark that no one can ignore.”
Honorable Mentions
In addition to the award-winning project, the jury members Dr. Andreas Tecklenburg and Prof. Dr. Claudia Schmidtke also presented three other projects that received praise in addition to the Lohfert Prize:
- Integrative low-threshold care structures as a supplement to professional outpatient care – Helferportal GmbH & Co. KG
- PINK! – Better digital care for breast cancer patients, PINK against Breast Cancer GmbH & LMU Munich Breast Center
- ZUKE Green – the exchange and networking community for sustainable business in the healthcare sector, Zukunft Hospital-Einkauf GmbH (ZUKE)
About the Lohfert Prize
The Lohfert Prize 2023 was advertised on the topic “Rethinking Medicine – Sustainable Concepts for Sustainable Health Care”. As in previous years, the focus should be on projects that demonstrate and implement measurable quality in this sense.
With the Lohfert Prize, the Christoph Lohfert Foundation honors and promotes tried-and-tested and sustainable concepts to improve quality and patient orientation in healthcare.
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