Abstracts by key term: Supply control
Das deutsche Gesundheitssystem steht vor strukturellen Herausforderungen – darunter eine im internationalen Vergleich hohe Inanspruchnahme ambulanter Versorgungsangebote, steigende ambulante Notfallzahlen sowie die durch die Komplexität des Systems bedingten hohen Anforderungen an die eigenständige Navigation der Bevölkerung (1–3). Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Ersteinschätzungsinstrumente zunehmend als Ansatz zur Verbesserung der Versorgungssteuerung diskutiert. Unter Ersteinschätzungsinstrumenten werden Tools der […]
03.08.2026
Symptom checkers are interactive, AI-based applications designed to support patients' self-management in the event of symptoms of illness. By assessing diagnoses and urgency, symptom checkers have the potential to contribute to care management and improve health literacy. The diagnostic accuracy of the currently available symptom checkers is currently still in a rather low range. When it comes to triage accuracy, however, some of the applications do very well. The latter point in particular offers opportunities to relieve emergency rooms, for example.
03.04.2023
The medical care for patients in Germany is undisputedly one of the best in the world, and this particularly applies to the care in hospitals. However, since the introduction of the flat-rate payment system, a steady increase in the number of cases has been observed, which has now led to a critical intensification of work in hospitals. The precarious current situation is exacerbated by a reduction in personnel, partly caused by a shortage of skilled workers, partly for cost reasons, particularly in nursing, as well as by other circumstances that originated long before the introduction of the DRG system. These consist, on the one hand, in the state-side deficit in financing investment costs, which has been increasing for decades, as well as in the historically grown structural deficits in the hospital landscape - which not only means the high hospital density in Germany compared to international standards, but also, in particular, the relevant regional differences when compared within Germany (1).
31.03.2015
When it comes to health matters, patients are anything but used to taking responsibility for themselves and their health. SGB V already emphasizes that they have shared responsibility and a duty to cooperate. However, it assigns the main responsibility to statutory health insurance. In the past, the traditional way of thinking in medicine often led to patients being seen as objects of medicine without their own responsibility (Schmid et al., page 14). In this context, the focus of care on acute, episodic and one-dimensional diseases is specifically mentioned, not least due to ever-increasing specializations (Müller-Mundt and Schaeffer, page 143).