Innovation Fund: 197 new funding applications for health services research

27.02.2019 09:32

The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) received a total of 197 project applications in response to the five funding announcements from autumn 2018 in the area of health services research.

“This consistently high number of applications underlines the ongoing need for funding from the Innovation Fund. “Especially in a year in which a decision has to be made about the continuation of the Innovation Committee, which is limited to December 31, 2019, this is an important signal because it shows that many ideas still exist and there is an unbroken need for funding,” said the chairman of the innovation committee, Prof. Josef Hecken, in Berlin.

• There were 120 applications for the health services research funding announcement in the open-topic area.
• A total of 66 applications were received in response to the funding announcement for health care research in the topic-specific area, with the main topics being topic area 4 “Influence of evidence-based health information for patients on care” (23 applications) and topic area 3b “Linking health data at the population level” (17 applications). and topic area 1 “Strengthening health care in nursing and transparency about the quality of nursing care” (12 applications) were of great interest to the applicants.

There are a total of 11 applications for the funding announcement for the evaluation of selective contracts and for the funding announcements for the further development and, in particular, evaluation of the psychotherapy guidelines and the guidelines for outpatient specialist medical care § 116b SGB V.