Innovation Committee supports 17 additional projects

15.12.2021 14:01

The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has decided to financially support 17 additional projects on new forms of medical care. The applicants will now be informed of the details of the decision, to which they must give their consent. After the binding feedback period has expired, the Innovation Committee will send out the official funding notifications.

An initial overview of the new projects is expected to be published on the Innovation Committee's website at the end of January 2022. The project descriptions are then also included in the Project database New forms of care available.

“With our current funding decisions, we as the Innovation Committee have for the first time completed the two-stage selection process newly introduced by the legislature: in the first step, those responsible for the project initially only submitted an idea sketch of their concept. “On the basis of this sketch, it was decided which projects could submit a full application that describes the project and its feasibility in detail,” says Prof. Josef Hecken, Chairman of the Innovation Committee at the G-BA. “According to legal requirements, generally no more than 20 projects can be supported. High-quality concepts with the best possible conditions for successful implementation and evaluation are selected. We are pleased that 17 new projects can now be implemented. It remains to be seen whether the longer selection process is ultimately better suited to increasing the potential of projects for standard care.”

In response to its funding announcement on June 26, 2020, the Innovation Committee received a total of 136 idea sketches: In January 2021, 33 projects were then selected for financial support for a full application. Of these 33 projects, 17 can now be funded. 1 project application from the open-topic area and 16 project applications from the topic-specific area, which are divided into the following subject areas:

• Further development of care structures and processes: 5 applications
• Supply models for regions with special structural requirements: 2 applications
• Integration and networking of rehabilitative measures to increase the treatment success of statutory health insurance services: 2 applications
• Care models for patient pathways: 5 applications
• Data-supported care models for people with chronic illnesses in outpatient care: 2 applications