Gevko Scientific Advisory Board publishes position paper
20.03.2018 16:19
The gevko scientific advisory board began its work in September 2017. As the first result of his work, he publishes a position paper on the topics of health services research, eHealth Act 2.0 and §291d SGB V. The data interfaces between the sector boundaries envisaged by the legislature as part of the new version of §291d SGB V are fundamentally planned as a system-neutral archiving option and provide support System changes of service providers should be expanded to strengthen health services research. The scientific data transfer interface, which has been required by the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine (DEGAM) since 2015 and expressly supported by the Advisory Board, is to be further technically specified and adapted to current circumstances and requirements.
The scientific advisory board addresses the great importance of health services research in the new version of Section 291 SGB V, as “information” is one of the six basic pillars to strengthen and further develop the health system in relation to the diverse challenges ahead.
Health services research today is essentially based on data from outpatient, clinical and intersectoral care, says the chairman of the scientific advisory board, Prof. Andreas Sönnichsen. Among other things, this data must also reflect the intra- and interprofessional context, such as the coordination between family doctor care and nursing care. The basis for this is mostly secondary data / routine data that is available to health insurance companies, nursing care funds and statutory health insurance associations as part of their administrative processes such as billing. The low-effort use of routine data needs to be further expanded. In addition, options need to be developed and made available that would enable health services research to carry out individual studies using standardized processes and procedures more easily and efficiently in the future.
In their statement, the advisory board members emphasize that the DEGAM position paper has set the right course, but this still requires further technical specification taking into account current legal circumstances such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from May 2018.
Gevko managing director Prof. Guido Noelle emphasizes gevko's strategy of developing a technical guide for a “generic study module” with the active support of the scientific advisory board with the aim of inclusion in the “VESTA” interoperability directory. Here, close cooperation with DEGAM, the German Network for Healthcare Research (DNVF) and software industry associations such as the Medical Software Quality Ring play an important role in further development and pilot projects. The position paper of the Scientific Advisory Board provides an important basis for this, both for a necessary specification of the necessary interfaces and for standardized and uniform processes and procedures.
The advisory boards demand in their position paper
- To provide study “offers” electronically in a standardized and structured manner in a medical practice information system,
- to fully support the individual registration and participation declaration process electronically,
- ensure greater patient-related availability of structured data beyond billing processes,
- to enable the inclusion of data collected by the patient himself,
- to define standardized study protocols
- To make recommendations on established, secure online data transfer procedures between medical practices and research institutions
- and the importance of data protection, in particular the data economy requirement, must be taken into account for all of the goals mentioned.
Download the position paper at www.gevko.de, or www.gevko.de/de/forschunger-beirat/Wiss-Beirat-Positionspapier_20180320.pdf.