In 2007-09 four evaluation studies started, three of them have been finished until now. He is a pharmacist and public health expert.
Gesundes Kinzigtal aims at improving three key issues of any health care system: cost, health, and care.
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Ongoing evaluation using insurers’ clinical and administrative data from 2012 to 2016 is subject to the INTEGRAL project, funded by the German Health Innovation Fund. It was established at the department of medical sociology at Freiburg University. Methods and analysis Database Claims data from statutory health insurance funds 2005–2015. In 2007-09 four evaluation studies started, three of them have been finished until now.
Gesundes Kinzigtal Integrated Care (“Integrierte Versorgung Gesundes Kinzigtal” – IVGK) operates from 2006 as a population-based integrated care pilot in the Kinzigtal region in Southwestern Germany. This approach has been named “Triple Aim” by Don Berwick et al. The external evaluation of Gesundes Kinzigtal Integrated Care is organized into various evaluation studies (modules), with each study pursuing its own subset of basic research questions. The Gesundes Kinzigtal programme, Germany Verena Struckmann, Wienke Boerma, Ewout van Ginneken Currently, an estimated 50 million people in the European Union live with multiple chronic diseases (multimorbidity) and this number is expected to further increase in the near future. In case of Gesundes Kinzigtal Integrated Care, the management company and the contracting health insurers have provided a considerable budget for an evaluation by independent research institutions.
The evaluation of Gesundes Kinzigtal's work by independent research institutions is coordinated by a separate coordination agency, EKIV („Evaluations-Koordinierungsstelle Integrierte Versorgung”). Additionally, Gesundes Kinzigtal won financing to exte nd its scientific evaluation as part of the 2015 German Act to Strengthen Care (GKV- VSG) endowmen t fund, which provides €300 million annually Helmut Hildebrandt is the chief executive. 24 ; NHS Health Check: How Germany’s healthcare system works by Branwen Jeffreys (read online) Update: Evaluation of Gesundes Kinzigtal by Achim Siegel and Wilhelm Niebling in: EKIV Newsletter 1/2017 2. Damit wird nicht nur das eigene Wirken kritisch hinterfragt, sondern auch die Versorgungsforschung mit wissenschaftlich untermauerten Impulsen bereichert. The INTEGRAL study aims at assessing the effectiveness of ‘Gesundes Kinzigtal’ under routine conditions in comparison to conventional care over a period of 10 years in order to understand the benefits but also the potential for (unintended) harms. Gesundes Kinzigtal (meaning ‘healthy Kinzigtal’) is a joint venture between a network of physicians in Kinzigtal and a Hamburg-based health care management company, OptiMedis AG. The name means "healthy Kinzig valley". Darüber hinaus dienen Evaluationsergebnisse oft …
Introduction to the programme ‘Gesundes Kinzigtal’ (Healthy Kinzigtal) Founders The programme was founded in 2005 by a local physicians network (Ärztenetz – MQNK), existing since 1993 with more than 40 physician members, and a health management company with a health sciences background (OptiMedis AG), established in 2003.