Health city Berlin

Health City Berlin e. V. is a registered, non-profit association with its headquarters in Berlin . The association, founded in 2004, is committed to networking medicine , health research and health policy in the Berlin capital region and has more than 200 members.

aims

Health City Berlin eV pursues the following goals:

• Improvement of the interdisciplinary cooperation of all actors in the health care system by networking clinics , science , business , politics and payers
• Establishment of a capital city network in which interests are bundled, cooperation and initiatives are promoted and concrete projects to strengthen the health sector are implemented
• Strengthening the Berlin / Brandenburg health region
• Strengthening quality transparency in medicine, nursing and rehabilitation
• Promotion of public health care and health prevention
• Raising awareness in business, science and the general public for public health care and the importance of medical research

Projects and priorities

Health City Berlin eV projects are categorized into four subject areas: quality and transparency , demographic change , psychiatry , oncology and health prevention .

Projects on quality and transparency

Health City Berlin developed the first clinic guide Berlin in 2006 in cooperation with Tagesspiegel . Based on the quality reports from over 80 hospitals, the clinic guide provided information on the number of treatments, complication rates or the location and facilities of the clinic. The clinic guide has been created five times so far (as of 2012). In 2012, the districts bordering Berlin were included in the Berlin Clinic Guide for the first time in order to consider not only facilities within the city limits of Berlin, but also in the capital region. The fifth clinic guide was supplemented by the results of the latest patient surveys by the Techniker Krankenkasse .

At the end of 2009 the Berlin practice comparison was made. The Berlin practice comparison makes data from 160 Berlin special treatment centers available, which offer one of the following eight outpatient services: outpatient eye surgery , chemotherapy , colonoscopy , cardiac catheter examinations , X-ray and ultrasound examinations , pain therapy , the treatment of HIV infections and diabetes. In addition to information on the number of treatments, equipment features and service, the report contains practical recommendations from around 1,500 resident doctors in Berlin. The Berlin practice comparison was developed with the professional associations and quality assurance commissions of the medical profession for each of the eight medical services considered, quality parameters were selected and the medical professionals made their data available on a voluntary basis.

In 2011, the data on the quality of nursing homes in Berlin were included in the online portal Gesundheitsberater-Berlin.de. The information is based on the third nursing home advisor created by the Health City Berlin and Tagesspiegel. The third nursing home guide contains a total of information on around 380 nursing homes in Berlin and the Brandenburg area; these were presented in detail with information on the quality of care, equipment and price. The AOK Nordost provided data on care facilities, information on places, MDK grades and co-payments. This information from the nursing care fund was supplemented by the editors of the nursing home guide with numerous other information that could be relevant for those looking for a home: for example, the distribution of single and double rooms, the availability of rooms with a private bathroom, whether it is possible, furniture or Bringing pets into the facility, or what form of general practitioner care is provided in the home.

The National Health Quality Congress , which the Health City Berlin has held annually since 2006, discusses quality deficiencies in the German health care system and how these can be remedied. The main topics are: infection protection and hygiene, patient safety and error prevention, quality management and quality assurance as well as quality measurement. Representatives from clinics, politics, the G-BA and the Advisory Council use this congress to discuss quality problems in the healthcare system and possible solutions.

As part of the congress, the “German Health Quality Prize ” sponsored by Health City Berlin will be awarded. The prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, is the most important award in Germany in the field of quality in health care and recognizes exemplary commitment to the development and implementation of innovative concepts for quality assurance and patient safety in health care.

The Rehabilitation Guide Berlin and Brandenburg was published by the Health City Berlin and the Tagesspiegel for the first time in 2012. For the first time, quality information on rehabilitation measures carried out was prepared for an entire region and made available to patients. Almost all rehabilitation facilities in Berlin and Brandenburg could be won over to participate and release their quality data.

Demographic change projects

In view of the fact that the German population is getting older and older, in 2009 the city of health Berlin founded the Germany - Land of Long Life initiative . This is primarily about how the best possible quality of life can be maintained in old age. The focus is on age-appropriate living, technical assistance systems, psychosocial services, lifelong learning and social participation.

Around 700 decision-makers from the housing, social and health industries meet with representatives from politics, social security, local authorities and industry at the demography congress , which the Health City of Berlin holds once a year in cooperation with WISO SE Consulting GmbH whole Germany. The congress is described as a “civil society workshop” for opening up new opportunities for an aging society.

Projects in the field of psychiatry

Against the background of the growing number of diagnosed mental illnesses and the inadequate care of the people affected, in September 2012 Health City Berlin founded the working group for psychiatry and psychotherapy , which includes representatives from regional psychiatric clinics and social institutions. With the aim of jointly improving psychiatric care in Berlin, the working group has defined five key areas of activity: destigmatization of mental illnesses, integration or reintegration of mentally ill people into working life, prevention of mental illnesses or strengthening of resilience, improvement of cross-sector care and improvement access to the housing market for mentally ill people. The aim of the working group is to develop and implement projects in the five fields that contribute to a significant improvement in psychiatric care. For example, a concept is being worked on how the integration of patients into the primary labor market can be more successful through a combination of existing funding instruments and the temporary work model.

Projects in the field of oncology

Building on the two-day National Innovation Forum for Medicine, which dealt with the topics of proton and heavy ion therapy (2008), prevention and treatment of infectious diseases (2009) and immunology (2011), Health City Berlin has developed the European Oncology Forum , which usually takes place once is carried out annually in cooperation with WISO SE Consulting GmbH. The European Oncology Forum is a political format and brings together around 200 decision-makers from the fields of research, medicine, health policy and industry. The aim is to improve the framework for the further development of European cancer research and cancer therapy. Scientific partners of the congress are EUROCAN (European Platform for Translational Cancer Research) and OECI (Organization of European Cancer Institutes).

Health prevention projects

Health City Berlin, together with the Landessportbund Berlin eV, organized the regional specialist event Vitales Berlin in 2012 . The specialist event was the start of a number of projects and initiatives to strengthen health promotion in Berlin. The central project is the Berlin prevention portal, a web-based overview of as many offers as possible for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in the capital. This project is being implemented by the Tagesspiegel and the City of Health Berlin on behalf of the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs.

External communication on the Internet

Health City Berlin provides ongoing information on current developments in medicine, nursing and health policy in its own news portal www.gesundheitsstadt-berlin.de. Interviews and videos with personalities from the health sector, a clinic finder with access to central information about the hospitals in the Berlin-Brandenburg region and current event information are also published.

The joint search and advice portal of Gesundheitstadt Berlin and Der Tagesspiegel www.gesundheitberater-berlin.de provides data on the quality and scope of medical care for clinics, nursing facilities, doctor's practices and rehabilitation facilities in the capital region and makes the facilities comparable with one another. The goal of the portal is transparency for patients and consumers. The publications Berlin Clinic Guide, Berlin Nursing Home Guide, Berlin Practice Comparison and Rehabilitation Guide Berlin Brandenburg also serve this goal. Since 2010, a wide range of information on the health industry in Berlin and the results of the projects of Health City Berlin have been available to the public in this portal. In addition to an extensive database that enables a targeted clinic search for quality information, it includes doctor recommendations, further addresses and a wealth of editorial articles. Patients can find the right hospital for inpatient treatment or for an illness or compare a specific clinic with other hospitals. Doctors and medical professionals can research specific diagnoses, therapies and examination methods.

history

According to its own statement, Gesundheitsstadt Berlin eV goes back to an "initiative of the Chamber of Commerce Berlin and the Senate as well as several leading personalities of the Berlin health care system who, under the moderation of Volker Hassemer at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, sought to bundle the strengths of the Berlin health care system in 2002 . "(Website Health City Berlin)

Board of Directors and Management

Berlin's former Senator for Health and Social Affairs, Ulf Fink , is the founder and has been chairman of the board since it was founded in 2004. The deputy chairpersons are Roland Hetzer , Medical Director of the German Heart Center Berlin, and Andreas Penk , Managing Director of Pfizer Deutschland GmbH. The Board of Health City Berlin has ten other assessors. Franz Dormann is the managing director.

Web links

• Online presence of Gesundheitsstadt Berlin e. V.
• Information portal health advisor Berlin
• National Health Quality Congress
• The Demography Congress - Future Forum Long Life
• European Oncology Forum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Health City Berlin about your goals and activities , accessed on January 21, 2013.
2. ↑ Tagesspiegel from October 11, 2012 , accessed on January 21, 2013.
3. ↑ Information on the 2013 Clinic Guide , accessed on January 21, 2013, last updated on November 14, 2013.
4. ↑ Article in the Tagesspiegel of November 29, 2009 on the Berlin practice comparison , accessed on January 21, 2013.
5. ↑ Priorities of the National Quality Congress ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 21, 2013.  
6. ↑ Information on the 2011 award and award ceremony , accessed on January 21, 2013.
7. ↑ New article : Rehabilitation Guide 2012. In: Tagesspiegel from January 9, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2013.
8. ↑ Website of the Demography Congress ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 21, 2013.  
9. ↑ Interview with Berlin's Senator for Health Mario Czaja from July 26, 2012 , accessed on January 21, 2013.
10. ↑ Congress details in the German Central Library for Medicine  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 21, 2013.  
11. ↑ Conference details in the news area of ​​the AOK website ( memento of the original from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 21, 2013.  
12. ↑ Article in Tagesspiegel of January 24, 2010 on the health portal Gesundheitsberater-berlin.de , accessed on January 21, 2013.