MSD Audience Award 2019
08.08.2019 17:22
Who should win the MSD Audience Award 2019? Since 2012, MSD has been driving innovation in healthcare. The Audience Prize, worth EUR 5,000, is being awarded for the second time. From August 1st, click here at www.msd.de/jede-stimme-zaehlt and choose your favorite from nine innovative projects.
The MSD Health Prize brings together heads from research institutions, health insurance companies, the medical profession and startups. “This network of healthcare players is exactly the type of ecosystem we need for new standards in patient care,” says Chantal Friebertshäuser, Managing Director of MSD in Germany, describing the health award initiative.
The Audience Award concept was convincing and will therefore be continued in 2019. The audience, and therefore those it could directly affect, vote on the award of the prize worth EUR 5,000. “Despite all the complexity in healthcare, you always have to go back to the core. We want to make people healthier and improve their lives. The Audience Award gives these people a voice and is therefore particularly relevant for us,” emphasizes Chantal Friebertshäuser.
Voting is open from August 1st to September 17th www.msd.de/jede-stimme-zaehlt open. The winner of the Audience Award will be announced on September 18th.
These are them nominated participants at the Audience Prize: In 2019, there will also be projects to choose from that make an important contribution to patient care. The jury preselected these from a total of 52 applications:
Dialogue - Digitization of an anti-infective guide as an electronic app for mobile devices, Leipzig University Hospital, Anti-infective Commission
EasyOncology – quality assurance of oncological tumor boards, Easy Medical Applications GmbH
FRITZ & soulspace – early intervention & therapy center and soulspace for young people in crises, Vivantes, clinics for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
isPO – Integrated cross-sector psycho-oncology, Cologne University Hospital, Clinic I for Internal Medicine
Mind:Pregnancy – digital training to reduce mindfulness and fear of childbirth during pregnancy, Heidelberg University Women’s Hospital
ModuS – Modular training program for chronically ill children, young people and their parents, Hannover Medical School; Osnabrück Children's Hospital
Online therapy for anxiety, Selfapy GmbH; AOK Lower Saxony
SDM in the Bremer HzV - Improved care for people with chronic illnesses through shared decision-making, AOK Bremen/Bremerhaven; commercial health insurance fund (hkk); University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel Campus
TeLIPro – Telemedical lifestyle intervention program for type 2 diabetics, AOK Rheinland/Hamburg; German Institute for Telemedicine and Health Promotion (DITG)
All information about the individual projects can be found at: www.msd.de/gesundheit-im-dialog/gesundheitspreis/
The jury
The jury plays the central role in evaluating the initiatives. She must decide which projects are eligible for the prize. A small group of proven healthcare experts form the jury for the 2019 Health Prize:
Prof. Dr. Volker Amelung, Chairman of the Federal Association of Managed Care
Birgit Dembski, member of the board, BAG SELBSTHILFE eV (Federal Association for Self-Help for People with Disabilities, Chronic Illnesses and their Relatives)
Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Grandt, chief physician of the Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Saarbrücken gGmbH, member of the board of the German Medical Association's Drug Commission
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner, Chair of Health Economics and Health Management at Bielefeld University
Dr. Rainer Hess, lawyer and former impartial chairman of the G-BA
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz, former chairman of the Health Advisory Council
Dr. Jutta Wendel-Schrief, Director Market Access, MSD