Abstracts by keywords: dichotomy.
On the occasion of the 2019 SpringSchool of the German Network for Health Services Research in April 2019, Christian Klose (Department "Digitization and Innovation" of the BMG) presented the BMG's roadmap for the development of the Digitization Act (1). This presentation is valuable for several reasons, although the reason for the connection between "digitization and innovation" is not immediately obvious. The value becomes apparent in the description of the determinants to be taken into account*. The Institute of Clinical Economics (ICE) eV is therefore establishing a new working group that deals with the practical application of technical advances in telecommunications in health services research. In this first part of our report, the preliminary work of politics is briefly mentioned and the preliminary work of science is described: The differences between clinical research (KF) and health services research (SR).