Health Economics: department tasks

The department deals with economic issues related to health care in the German health care system, both for drug and non-drug interventions.

The department's staff produce:

• Evaluations of data on patient numbers and treatment costs (as part of dossier assessments / early benefit assessments)
• Recommendations for minimum resource requirements
• Reports on routine practice data collection (RPDC)
• Health economic evaluations

Other tasks include:

• The preparation of expert reports on the economic efficiency of medical interventions
• Support for the "ThemenCheck Medizin" reports with regard to economic aspects
• The further development of methods for the analysis of health care and health economic issues, e.g. regarding the usability and analysis of routine data
• The dissemination of assessment methods and results, as well as other new scientific knowledge arising from the department's work, through presentations and publications
• The conducting of and further development of modelling methods at the Institute. Currently, the department has a particular focus on modelling screening strategies (e.g. age limits, screening intervals) for research questions where there is already evidence of the overall benefit from a randomized study