New award for innovative contributions to patient orientation through structuring treatment processes
17.08.2012 12:42
At the 8th HEALTH INDUSTRY CONGRESS on August 29th and 30th this year in Hamburg, the Lohfert Prize will be presented to the public for the first time in the presence of its patron, Senator Cornelia Prufer-Storcks. The new award for successful concepts for “process-oriented control and communication in inpatient health care facilities” is endowed with EUR 20,000. It is sponsored by the Lohfert Foundation in Hamburg. The founder, Dr. Christoph Lohfert emphasized when announcing the prize: “For me it’s about strengthening the position of patients. A focus is therefore also on improving communication in hospitals.”
The Lohfert Prize honors concepts that have been tried and tested in practice and have already been implemented in medicine. They are intended to generate demonstrable benefits for patients and hospital employees through improved, interface-oriented processes. The focus must be on structural and organizational forms that are adapted to the needs of people at risk of illness. The prize money is earmarked and is intended to enable the securing and further development of the award-winning concept. All those involved in inpatient health care in German-speaking countries as well as experts from management companies, health insurance companies and consulting firms are invited to take part. A high-ranking jury with well-known players from the health sector, which will be presented at the HEALTH ECONOMY CONGRESS as part of a reception by the Lohfert Foundation for the congress participants, will decide on the award. The prize will be awarded in spring 2013.
The application documents are now available at www.lohfert-stiftung.de can be viewed. A prepared form for submitting the project can also be found there. All relevant data is also requested there and attachments are made available to present the project. The application deadline is January 31, 2013.
The Lohfert Foundation also supports this year's exhibition “Shades of Gray – Acceptance for a Different Way of Life” in the Congress GALLERY. The impressive project by the photographer Sophie Kirchner, who lives in Hamburg and Berlin, on the taboo topic of intersexuality is presented. Her sensitive portraits show people who are often victims of exclusion, discrimination and injury and who are stigmatized as outsiders from the day they are born.
Further information about the 8th HEALTH INDUSTRY CONGRESS on August 29th and 30th, 2012 in Hamburg can be found at: http://www.healthreminder.de/veranstaltungen/8.-gesundheitswirtschaftskongress.
The selection of a place for the “Creative Minds” discussion group is open www.gesundheitswirtschaftskongress.de/2012/werkstatt-gesundheit-kreative-koepfe-im-dialog/ possible. You will also find further information there. Ten congress participants can register here for one of the six rounds of discussions. Hurry is required!